Roth
Volga Colonies
Pre-Volga Origin
Wald-Michelbach, Hessen
Discussion & Documentation
Johann Michael Röth was born in Binsig and baptized on 24 May 1733 in Wald-Michelbach. He immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) where he married on 14 April 1760 in the colony of Altona to Eva Katharian Krämer. She had been born in Siedelsbrunn and baptized on 5 February 1737 in Wald-Michelbach.
In 1763, the Röth family immigrated to Russia, arriving in the colony of Anton on 7 September 1764. They are recorded there along with their children (Johann Michael, Johann Christian, and Eva Catharina) on the 1767 census in Household No. 7 Researchers
Gerhard Lang Sources
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga. - Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 53. External Links
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