Valentin Werth, a farmer, his wife Anna, and son Johann (age ¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 20 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Catharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Valentin Wirth [sic] and his wife Anna Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widow Anna Margaretha Werth is recorded on the 1767 census of Yagodnaya Polyana in Household No. 48. She had arrived in Yagodnaya Polyana on 16 September 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Valentin Werth came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that widow Anna Margaretha Werth came from the German village of Nidda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Werth family among the Volga German colonies.
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