RobertFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Liege
with a Glauwitz wife from Koenigsberg.
RobertusFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Pfalz (no locality indicated).
Robesburg?GL,
Lobach: an unidentified place
said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC
to a Marx family.
RobinFN:
said by the Franzosen FSL to be
fromUC Bourget, Frankreich, with a Schmidt
wife in the household. For 1798
see Mai1798:Fz44.
RochelFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Miltenberg.
RockFN:
see Rakk.
RockbaergerFN:
see Buchsberger.
RockbargerFN:
see Buchsberger.
RockemerFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
RockenhausenGL,
Kirchheim-Bolanden [Amt],
Pfalz: is some 8.5 miles WSW of Kirchheim-Bolanden city, and was proven by GCRA
to be home to the Opp family that
went to Glueckstal.
See the GCRA book for more details.
RockenschuhFN:
said by the Hildmann FSL to be
fromUC Bamberg [Bishopric].
RockowshewFN:
see Rakuszewski.
Rod-an-der-WeilGL,
Nassau-Usingen: is some 6.6 miles W of Usingen
city, and said by the Bangert FSL
to homeUC to a Nickel
family.
RodauFN:
see Rothau.
RodenbachGL,
Kurmainz: is some 4 miles E of Hanau
city, and said by the Goebel FSL
to be homeUC to a Kortz
family. Contemporary maps show
Rodenbach as apparently part of Hanau
County rather than a part of very near-by Kurmainz.
This surely was not the next entry.
RodenbachGL:
also see Friedberg.
RodenbergenGL,
[Isenburg County]: said by the Buedingen
ML to be homeUC to the Gambach
man who in 1766 married a Steinbach
woman (Mai&Marquardt#502).
By 1767 this couple was in Moor.
This place is some 6 miles S of Buedingen
city and is now called Rothenbergen;
contrary to what Stumpp said, it is not the Rodenberg of the Dillkreis,
further W and not then in Isenburg
County.
RodenbergerFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
RodingGL, Bayern: said by the Herzog
FSL to be homeUC to Kener
and Krenzer families.
Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Hofesass/Gofesass family.
There are two Rodings in Bavaria:
one is about 13 miles NNW and one is about 22 miles NE of Regensburg.
RoeberFN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be
fromUC Wittenberg (no
locality mentioned).
RoeberleinFN
said by the Roethling FSL to be
fromUC Schwarzburg bei
Frankenhausen, Melsungen, Hessen.
RoeberleinFN
said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Wesni(?), Wuerzburg, Bavaria.
RoederFN:
according to the Buedingen ML a
Roeder woman married in 1766 a Saltzmann
man who may be the one who went to Grimm
(Mai&Marquardt#479).
Said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Weimar, Sachsen. Later
spelled Raeder.
Roeder/RaederFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Orb/Orba(?).
RoederFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be from
Isenburg.
In 1798 the family name was spelled Raeder
(Mai1798:Ms12). Bonner
proved that Herr Roeder was
baptized in Wolferborn, Isenburg[-Birstein County] in 1728.
RoederFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Fulda.
RoedernGL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to two Hammerschmidt
families.
Roedern?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Diehl{Katharina}
widow. There are at least 4
Roederns in Germany.
RoedlingFN:
see Redler.
RoehlFN:
see Ril.
RoehmerFN:
see Roemer.
RoehrichFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Trier (no
locality mentioned).
Roehrich/RoehrigFN:
arrived in South Russia in 1820; later settled in Gueldendorf,
Odessa; family records found by Curt
Renz in Kleiningersheim, Besigheim Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.
RoehrichFN:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter
FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.
Later spelled Roehrig.
RoehrigFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be from
Isenburg.
Bonner
proved this Rohrich man was born
in, and married a Schmick woman
in, Huettengesas.
RoehrigFN:
also see Roehrich and Roerich.
RoemerFN:
said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Pretz. The Buedingen
ML spelled her name Rohner and
said she was fromUC Vogtstadt
near Hamelburg; Hoffman said Hammelburg
(Mai&Marquardt#632).
Roemer/RoehmerFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
fromUC Lich, Solms.
Roemer{Philipp}:
see Reiser{Philipp}.
RoemershausenGL,
Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Bangert
FSL to homeUC to a Schoesser
family. There are two likely
candidates: the more likely one is some 31 miles SW of Kassel
city, the less likely is some 56 miles SW of Kassel city.
RoemlinsdorfGL,
Oberdorf Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is 4 miles NW of Oberndorf,
Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Roemmich/RemmickFN:
according to Steven Hahn this family from Edenkoben
settled in Worms, Odessa.
RoemmlerVV:
another name for LuzernVV.
RoeneckeFN:
see Roenke.
RoenickeFN:
see Roenke.
Roenke?FN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Oranienbaum, Dessau.
Also spelled Roenecke, Reinecke, Roenicke, Reinigke and to be fromUC Woerlitz
(Mai&Marquardt#1140). I
could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Roenneberg, Mazow, South Prussia: an
unidentified place which the GCRA
found associated with a Herrmann
family in 1803.
RoerichFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Werbach with a Schade stepson in the household.
In 1798 the family name was spelled Roehrig
(Mai1798:Pl4,48).
RoeschFN:
spent time in Glueckstal and was
said by KS:408 to from
Kirchheim-am-Neckar, Heilbronn
[Amt], Wuerttemberg; this
origin was proven by GCRA
using FHL 1,184,918; see their
book for detail.
RoeslerFN{Johann}:
his widow was said by the Bergdorf
FSL (KS:660) to be from Preussisch Schlesien. The
GCRA has evidence that at least
one of his children was born in Kalisch,
South Prussia.
Also spelled Ressler, and Roessler.
RoeslerFN{J.
Georg}: said by KS:408 to have
gone to Bergdorf, no origin
given. Also spelled Rossler.
RoeslerFN{Ludwig
Friedrich}: said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 408) to be from Duerrmenz,
Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL(1,184,962), the
GCRA verified this origin.
See the GCRA book for more
details. Also spelled Ressler.
RoeslerFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Wuerttemberg (no locality
mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Ressler,
and frau Ressler’s maiden name was given as Redel (Mai1798:Ms61).
RoesnerFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Frose,
Sachsen with a Oldschmidt
wife fromUC Neuwirt.
A Luebeck ML says this Ruesener
man married a Schmidt woman in
1766; other sources give his name as Ruefener
(Mai&Marquardt#126).
Also may have been spelled Roessner
(Mai1798:Ka38?).
RoesslerFN:
see Roesler.
RoessnerFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Livland.
RoessnerFN:
also see Roesner.
RoesserFN,
see Reser.
Roessler/Ressler
FN: said by the Bergdorf
1816 census (KS:660, 404) to have
been fromUC Preussisch
Schlesien. The GCRA
believes the more specific origin may have been Kalisch, South Prussia. See
their book for more detail. Also
spelled Roesler.
RoetenmeierFN:
see Retenmeier.
RoetgersFN:
see Retger.
RoethaGL bei Leipzig, Sachsen: is
some 10 miles S of Leipzig city
centre, and said by KS:395 to be
homeUC to the Pommer
family which left to go toUC Glueckstal;
but the GCRA found no records for
them in the Glueckstal colonies; see their book for detail.
RoethenbachFN:
see Redenbach.
RoethingFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
an orphan girl (whose parents had died in Germany) in the Eltz
family household. I could not
find the Roething family name in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
RoethlerFN:
said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC
Wernheim?, [Kur-]Trier.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
RoethlingVV
(aka Semenovka) a Catholic German
village on the western side of the Volga.
Its FSL was published in Stumpp, The Emigration, pp.81, with
the entries and additional information (source not given by Stumpp)
interspersed alphabetically pp.117-165.
. According to that FSL
the following places were the origin of the following (in parens) families
who first settled in Roethling:
Adenau,
Koeln: (Wanstenderer/Wanstaenderer);
Althausen,
Fulda, Hessen: (Mihm);
Bart(?), Grafschaaft Hanau, Hessen: (Ritt);
Bassenheim,
Koblenz: (Rupp);
Bieber,
Gelnhausen, Hessen: (Apfel);
Bronzell/Bronel,
Fulda, Hessen: (Reis);
Dietesheim,
Steinheim-am-Main: (Schalitz);
Ehrstaedt,
Sinsheim, Baden or Eschstedt(?),
Kurmainz: (Schwab);
Froschhausen,
Offenbach, Hessen: (Baier);
Hammelbach,
Bergstrasse, Hessen/Hammelburg, Fulda, Hessen: (Irle);
Hanau,
Hessen: (Siebert);
Hesselbach,
Erbach, Hessen/ Esselbach, Kurmainz, Unterfranken: (Renndorf);
Hosenfeld,
Fulda, Hessen: (Siebert);
Irlach/Irbach,
Wuerttemberg(?)/Oberfalz: (Krau);
Ischen(?), Luxemburg: (Frisch);
Kammerzell/Kaemmerzell,
Fulda, Hessen: (Ell);
Kappel,
Simmern (Hunsrueck)/ Oesterreich: (Schmalz);
Koponwuen(?),Wuerzburg, Bavaria: (Oberst);
Langen,
Offenbach, Hessen: (Grein);
Langenprozelten,
Gelnhausen/Gemuenden (Main), Hessen: (Ellang,
Gobert/Gobel);
Langenprozelten,
Kurmainz: (Rebart);
Luxemburg:
(Flanz);
Michelbach,
Alzenau, Hessen/ Michelbach, Kurmainz: (Koenig);
Michelbach,
Spessart, Hessen/ Michelbach, Kurmainz: (Bensack);
Mitgenfeld,
Brueckenau, Bavaria: (Schaab);
Rari(?),
Kurmainz: (Matleheim);
Ruedigheim,
Hanau, Hessen/ Darmstadt, Hessen: (Frank);
Salmuenster,
Schluechtern, Hessen; (Elhart);
Schmalnau,
Fulda, Hessen: (Neuhard);
Schoenberg,
Erbach, Hessen/ Schoenberg, Obertaunus, Hessen: (Breitinger);
Schwarzburg
bei Frankenhausen, Melsungen, Hessen: (Roeberlein);
Sendelbach,
Lohr-am-Main, Wuerzburg, Bavaria: (Borger);
Stadt
Eis(?), Fulda: (Schwab);
Stolberg,
Rheinland: (Roth);
Tede(?), Fulda, Hessen: (Rousch);
Upoch(?),
Kurmainz: (Tihl/Diehl?/Thiel);
Urbach-Kirchdorf,
Westerwald/ Urbach bei Nordhausen: (Schlert);
Weschnitz,
Odenwald, Hessen: (Rubrecht);
Woeschbach,
Karlsruhe, Baden: (Konrad);
Wesni(?), Wuerzburg, Bavaria: (Roeberlein);
Zeilhard,
Dieburg, Hessen: (Kloster).
RoettgerFN:
see Retger.
RoetzweilerGL,
Birkenfeld [Amt], [Rheinpfalz]: is
some 6.5 miles NE of Birkenfeld
city, and incorrectly was said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census to be homeUC to a Kessler
who went to Glueckstal.
Rogel?FN:
said by the Franzosen FSL to be
maiden name of frau Kasanski.
RohlederFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Breslau, Preussen.
RohlmannFN:
said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC
Alsace (no locality mentioned).
RohnFN:
said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be fromUC Sellnrod
near Nidda (p.32, 34).
Spelled Rahn in the Pleve
version.
RohnFN:
confirmed in parish records by the Walter Research Project to be from Sellnrod before going to Walter.
RohnFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
RohnGL:
also see Ron and Roun.
RohnerFN:
see Roemer.
RohntalFN:
see Rontaler.
Rohr?FN:
said by the Fischer FSL to be
fromUC Tuebingen, Wuerttemberg. I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.
RohrFN:
according to a Woehrd ML this
woman from Kremsdorf, Bamberg [Bishopric]
married in 1766 a Niclas man; by
1767 this couple was in Kano
(Mai&Marquardt#324).
RohrFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Darmstadt
(no locality mentioned).
RohrFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Busendorf, Lothringen.
RohrbachFN:
listed by both the 1816 Neudorf
census (#4) and KS:409 without
origin, but census #83 incorrectly says they came fromUC Wingen, Weissenburg [Amt],
Elsass. Using FHL#2,083,960,
the GCRA proved
their origin in Holvingen, Forbach
[Kreis], Lothringen-Elsass.
See the GCRA book for
more.
RohrbachGL,
Isenburg[-Buedingen County]: 3 miles NW of Buedingen, and was said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer
FSL to be home of Grasmick and Weber families. Rohrbach
parish records say this Grasmuck family left their home in Rohrbach for Russia in 1766 (Mai&Marquart#1254);
Bonner proved this origin
both for the husband and for the May wife. Bonner also
proved this home to the Bopp
woman who married one of the Messinger
men who settled in Balzer, and of
the Weber step-daughter of one of
the Grasmueck men.
Said by the Buedingen ML to be home to the Bopp
man who in 1766 married a Stickel
woman; by 1767 this couple was in Norka:
Stumpp said this was near Buedingen
(Mai&Marquardt#712).
RohrbachGL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Fischer
FSL to be homeUC to two Meier
families and to frau Proziminski
who was born a Meier.
Said by the Kukkus FSL to
be homeUC to a Herzog
family. It is most likely that
this place was near Heidelberg
city, such as: 2 miles S of the city, 2 mile WNW of Eppingen
town, and 1 mile SE of Sinsheim
town.
RohrbachGL,
Lautenbach: said by the Goebel
FSL to be homeUC to a Daum
family.
RohrbachGL,
Schwartzburg-Rudolstadt Principality: is most likely some 9 miles SW of Rudolstadt
city and said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to a Machleit family and possibly to a Ludwig family.
RohrbachGL,
Wuerzburg: is 16 miles NW of the city of Wuerzburg,
Bavaria and said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to a Henke family.
RohrbronnGL,
Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 7 miles ESE of Waiblingen
city. The GCRA did not find the Rieker/Riker/Rieger{Johann} man who went to Bergdorf
and Kassel in the records of this
place.
Rohrdorf-bei-Altensteig,
Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 10
miles SSW of Calw city and 3.5
miles E of Altensteig town.
It was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Henne family
that settled in Neudorf.
RohrichFN:
see Roehrig.
RohtFN:
a Luebeck ML says that a Roht
woman and a Lufft man and, both from the area of Darmstadt, married in 1766 at the St. Jacob’s pastor’s home;
they then moved to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#254).
RohweinFN,
see Rowein.
RoisingnoleFN:
said by the Franzosen FSL to be
fromUC Chatreau,Frankreich with a Zerkla
wife. I could not find this
family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Rolesn?FN:
see Rollsing.
RollFN:
said by the Bergdorf 1816 census
(KS:660) to have been from Oberjettingen,
Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
This origin was verified by the GCRA
using FHL(1,475,207); see
their book for more detail. KS:409 said they were “aus dem Reich” … there were several
Reich, i.e. kingdoms in the Germanies at the time; Wuerttemberg was one of them.
RollerFN:
arrived in South Russia in 1819; later settled in Gueldendorf,
Odessa; family records found by Curt
Renz in Neubulach, Calw Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.
RollsingFN:
said by the Franzosen FSL to be
fromUC Hamburg (no
locality mentioned). In
1798 this may have been spelled Rolesn?
(Mai1798:Sm47).
Romanshoff,
Czarnikau [Kreis], Posen
Province, Prussia: it was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Bittner{J.Ludwig}
family that settled in Kassel.
RomeFN:
said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC
Kaiserlautern, Kurpfalz.
Romebschreit?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Boehm
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Boehmen.
This might be Rampetzreith 116 miles WNW of Vienna.
Romenburg?
GS: an unidentified country.
Romers/RommersGL:
is in Hessen some 12 miles N of Fulda city, and said by the Buedingen ML to be in the area of the barony of Weyher
[aka Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter] and to be homeUC to
a Heun woman who married a Guthmann
man in 1766; the couple later went to Frank.
Stumpp says she was a Heuss fromUC Rommers near Fulda in Hessen. (Mai&Marquardt#633).
HeinFN said by
the Frank FSL to be fromUC
Hirschfeld, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter(?). Doris
Evans says research by Anneliese
Micheiwski for the Frank Research fund confirms that a Hein/Heun man said to have come from Gersfeld was born in Rommers,
Free Noble Province of Ancient Knights.
The original spelling evidently was Heun.
An ancestor of his was mayor of Gersfeld in 1649.
RometschFN:
the likely preferred spelling for Raschez.
RomigFN:
died in Glueckstal and was proven
by GCRA to be from
Forchtenberg, Oehringen [Amt], Wuerttemberg using
FHL 1,340,210; see their book for
a bit more detail.
RomigFN: also see Remisch.
RommeFN: see Remisch.
RommelhausenGL:
see Friedberg.
Rommelsbach,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
now a neighborhood in eastern Tuebingen
city, and proved
by the GCRA to be home to the Neuschler
woman who married a Meier and
went to Glueckstal; see the GCRA
book for detail.
Rommersberg?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Schroeder{J.Heinrich}
family. With minor variations in
spelling there are several places of this name in the Germanies.
Romrod?GL:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
homeUC to Merkel and Rau families.
RomrodGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt]: is
some 4 miles SW of Alsfeld city,
and said by the Buedingen ML to
be homeUC to an Icks
man who in 1766 married a Schaeffer
woman; Stumpp says Romrod was near Alsfeld,
Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#487).
Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be homeUC to Strock
and Schmidt{Weigand} families; Kuhlberg
said this was in Darmstadt.
Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to Belerg?, Filtscher?, and Schmidt
families. Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Kalbfleisch family; Kuhlberg said this was in Darmstadt.
RomrodeGL,
Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Kraft
FSL to be homeUC to a Stuerz
family. Same as Romrod?
RomrodtGL:
This probably is the same place Romrod
and likely was the parish or civil center responsible for Obern
Breidenbach.
Ron?FN:
said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to
be fromUC Stangenrod,
[Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate].
Spelled Rohn in 1798 (Mai1798:Bs5,
Zr20).
Rondel
GL: see Friedberg.
RonneburgGL:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
homeUC to an Arzt
family. I found only 1 such
placename in Germany, in lands that had been Kursachsen;
see next entry.
RonneburgGL,
[Kursachsen??]: is some 4 miles E
of Gera city, and said by the Orlovskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Weise
family. Kuhlberg said this was in the state of Sachsen.
RonsfeldtGL:
according to the Buedingen ML this was the homeUC of a Reiss
woman who married in 1766 a Proescher
man; by 1767 the couple was in Koehler
[where his name was given as Brescher]
(Mai&Marquardt#580).
RontalerFN:
according to the Buedingen ML a
Rontaler woman, origin not given, married an Asmus
man in 1766; later the couple went to Jagodnaja
Poljana; other spells were Rhonthaler
and Rohntal (Mai&Marquardt#725).
Ropolt?FN:
see Roppelt.
Roppenheim
parishGL, Bischweiller
[Amt], Elsass: issome 10
miles NE of Bischwiller city, and was a Lutheran
parish where the GCRA proved the Wolf{Matthias/Friedrich}
family that later went to Kassel and
to Bergdorf attended church.
Also, was proven by the GCRA
to be home to a Gress{Christmann}aka
Jakob{Anton}family that settled
in Neudorf.
RoppeltFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
fromUC Dreuschendorf, Bamberg [Bishopric]. In
1798 also spelled Ruppelt (Mai1798:Hz2,
3, 4, 8, 28, 29, Dl27, 33, Ps33, 68), Rumpelt
(Hz2, 3), and possibly Ropolt?
(Ps60?).
RosbachGL:
said by a Luebeck ML to be homeUC
to a Reiffscheider woman who in
1766 married a Thiel man in 1766;
by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar
(Mai&Marquardt#231).
This may be the same as the next entry or it may be the Rossbach
which was NW of Giessen.
Rosbach/RossbachGL,
(24.4 miles ESE of Frankfurt-am-Main)
in northern Bavaria. In the
1760’s it was a village in the Barony of Thuengen,
and was homeUC to Laroesch
and Schaed families according to
the Buedingen ML per David
Schmidt. Also see Mai&Marquardt#483).
RosbachGL:
see Rossbach.
RoschauerFN:
said by the Rothammel FSL to be
fromUC Kefertal(?), Kurpfalz.
Roschidschin, Posen Department, South
Prussia: an unidentified place which the GCRA found assoicated with a Reich
family in 1801.
RosdorfGL,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place
said by the Preuss FSL to be home
to a Nau family.
There are several Rosdorf and Rossdorf in Germany.
RoseFN:
said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
RoseFN:
said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL
to be fromUC Gern in
the Empire of Schlesien.
According to the Buedingen ML, this Ross
man married in 1766 a Meisch
woman, no origin given for either (Mai&Marquardt#426).
RosebachFN:
see Rosenbach.
RosemannFN:
said by the Bettinger FSL to be
fromUC Ansbach (no
locality mentioned). According
to a Luebeck ML this man married a Bartels
woman (no origin given) in 1766; another source gives her maiden name as Bartelsen
(Mai&Marquardt#113).
RosenbachFN:
Herr Rosenbach was said by the Koehler
FSL to be fromUC Nidda,
and his frau’s maiden name was given as Schiebler
(no origin given). The family name was
spelled both Rosenbach (Mai1798:Kl25).and
Rosebach (Mai1798:Kl42) in 1798.
RosenbergFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Niederzell
and to have an Ehrentraudt
brother-in-law in the household.
In 1798 spelled Rosenberger
(Mai1798:Nm49). According
to a Luebeck ML this Rosenberger
man from Hanau married in 1766 a Buettner
woman from Engen, Switzerland [she must have died on the trip to Russia … rak] (Mai&Marquardt#291).
RosenbergGL
an unidentifed locality (there are several in areas formerly controlled by
Prussia) said by the Stahl-am-Karaman
FSL to be in the Prussian Empire and to be homeUC to the a Gut family.
RosenbergVV:
(aka Umet or Umet Ilovlinska).
RosenbergerFN:
see Rosenberg.
RosenbornGL:
see Rosinbrin.
RosenfeldGL,
Dessau: is some 20 miles SSW of Dessau
city, and said by the Boaro FSL
to be homeUC to a Zeutsch
family.
Rosenfeld, Orpiszewo [Amt, Posen
Department], South Prussia: nka Rozopole, Poland 3 miles W of Orpiszew.
The GCRA says it was near Forsthaueusler
and Hellefelde and was associated
with Benz
and Wetzler families.
RosenfeldGL,
Sulz Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 6 miles SE of Sulz-am-Neckar, and was
home to a Hoehn family that
settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.
RosenfeldGL,
Wuerttemberg: said by the Laub
FSL to be homeUC a Stuertz
family, and possibly to a Mueller
family. This surely is the same
place as the previous entry.
RosenortGL,
Elbing: is now Suchowo, Poland,
and was 2.5 miles SE of Tiegendorff
city. Said by the Orloff FSL to
be homeUC to a Loewen
family.
RosenortBV,
Halbstad District, Molotschna:
a German Mennonite village established in 1805 (see KS:97).
Hildegard Wasnick village
coordinator has begun to assemble information on the origins of settlers of
this village and others, and to make that information available to this
index. So far her FSL source is
mainly the Unruh book, but for
almost every family listed here, she has assembled additional information
from the records of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society (MMHS).
The numbers in parentheses are the household numbers in the village
FSL as given in Unruh:
from Damfeld,
Marienburg Amt: (Borm{Peter}16);
from Elbing:
(Zacharias13);
from Ellerwald, Elbing Amt: (Jantzen9, Rempel7);
from Heubuhden,
Marienburg Amt: (Ensz/Enz{Isaac}14);
from Lackendorff,
Danzig Amt: (Tiessen/Thiessen
{Peter}12);
from Laescky/Leske, Marienburg Amt: (Tiessen/Thiessen{Franz}4);
from Mielentz/Mielenz, Marienburg Amt:
(Wiebe{Duerck}20, {Heinrich3});
from Neusteterwald, Elbing: (Siemens15, and
possibly Emsen15);
from Petershagen,
Tiegenhoff Amt: (Bochmann10);
from Sandhof,
Marienburg Amt: (Klaassen18,
and possibly Neufelt18);
from Schoenau,
Marienburg Amt: (Dueck2);
from Stadtfeld/Stadtfelde,
Marienburg Amt: (Baerg19);
from Uchnitz/Usnitz,
Stuhm Amt: (Borm{Peter}1).
RosenquistFN:
said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC
Krestwin?, Schweden; it also says he married a woman [probably Russian?] from Saratov,
but does not give her family name. I
cannot find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
RosenquistFN:
frau Rosenquist was said by the Enders
FSL to be fromUC Saratov.
RosenthalFN:
said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC
Selzen, Kurpfalz.
Roshta(?)GL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place
said by the Volmer FSL to be home
to a Armbruster family.
RosinFN:
listed by the 1858 Kassel census
(#228) without origin, but KS:410
said they were fromUC Fellbach,
Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
The GCRA believes it is doubtful they were fromUC Fellbach.
Rosinbrin?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to an Untermann
family. There was a Rosenborn in what is now Poland.
Roskopf/Grosskopf?FN:
said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC
Wittlich, Trier.
Still spelled Roskopf in 1798.
RosmannFN:
see Russmann.
RossFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be from
Isenburg.
Bonner proved that this
man and his Doerr wife were both
baptised and married in Huettengesas.
RossFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
RossFN:
see also Rose and Russ.
RossbachFN
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no
locality mentioned).
RossbachFN:
see Reibich.
RossbachGL:
is a village some 11 miles NW of Giessen.
Sometimes spelled Rosbach.
Rossbach(?)GL,
Hanau: said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt family. This
might be the Rossbach, Hessen,
some 17 miles ENE of Hanau city.
Rossbach/RussbachGL:
is some 11 miles NNE of Schlitz
city and may, in the 1760s, have been in Schlitz
County. See Schlitz.
RossbachFN:
see Roszbach.
Rossdorf,
Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 5
miles SE of Bamberg city centre, and said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Popp family.
RossdorfGL:
also see Rosdorf.
RosslauGS:
is usually short for the Anhalt-Dessau Principality
but could also refer to the capital city (of that principality) which is 30
miles SE of Magdeburg city and
was a gathering point for colonists heading for Russia..
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Windecke?
family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Caesarsfeld
FSL to be homeUC to a Winschu
family. Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Per?
family. Stumpp at one point
confused this place with the town in Hesse
(Mai&Marquardt#936).
RosslerFN:
see Roesler.
RossmannFN
said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC
Hergaz(?), Fulda.
RossnerFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL fromUC
Steinsheim, Bamberg [Bishopric] with
with a Rassler stepson in the
household. I could not find
either family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
RossoschiVV:
a varient of the Russian name for FranzosenVV.
RossoshiVV:
a varient of the Russian name for FranzosenVV.
RossosiVV:
a varient of the Russian name for FranzosenVV.
RossotschiVV:
a varient of the Russian name for FranzosenVV.
RossweinGL,
Sachsen: is some 23 miles W of Dresden,
and said by the Dinkel FSL to be
homeUC to a Otto
family.
RostFN:
said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 410?) to be fromUC Ossweil, Ludwigsburg [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
RostFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
fromUC Hirshaid, Bamberg [Bishopric]. For
1798 see Mai1798:Hz12, Bn5, 43).
RostFN:
also see Russ.
RostischerFN:
mistakenly said by KS:410 to have
gone toUC Glueckstal,
and said to have come fromUC Weitersweiler,
Luetzelstein [Amt], Elsass.
Rostock(?)GL:
Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Lemke? family. Said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Capel
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Orlovskaya FSL
to be homeUC to an Egers
family.Surely is the place in Mecklenburg.
RostockGL,
Mecklenburg[-Schwerin Duchy]: is some 61 miles ENE of Luebeck city. Said by
the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC
to a Meier family.
Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Gaertner’s wife. Said
by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC
to a Schroeder/Schraeder family.
RoszbachFN:
according to a Luebeck ML, a Roszbach woman (no origin given for either) married in 1765 a Bockbarger
man married in 1765; later the couple went to Kratzke;
other sources give the name as Rotzbach
and Rossbach (Mai&Marquardt#15).
Rot/RottFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no
locality mentioned) but he died and his widow remarried Guenther.
RotFN:
a stepdaughter and the maiden name of the wife listed by the Boregard
FSL in the Mueller{Andreas}
household.
RotFN:
said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL
to be fromUC Gening.
RotGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to Goebel
and Merkel? families, and possibly to a Schulz family. There
were many places with that name in the Germanies.
RotGL,
Heidelberg [Amt}, Baden:
was 10 miles SSW of Heidelberg
city, and said by the 1816 Kassel
census and in KS:326 to be homeUC
to the Keil family.
RotGL,
Hungary: see Tscherwenka,
Batschka, Hungary.
RotauFN:
see Rothau.
RotenFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Zlupelheim, Hesse-Darmstardt.
This is probably Roth.
Rotenberg,
Stuttgart [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is 3 miles W of Stuttgart city and was said, evidently mistakenly, by both
the 1816 Neudorf census (#3, 25) and KS:222
to be homeUC to the
Benignus family that settled in Neudorf.
RotenbergerFN:
listed by both the 1816 Neudorf
census (#19) and KS:410 without
origin. Using FHL#193,818, the
GCRA proved their origin in Doerrenbach,
Bergzabern [Amt], Rheinpfalz.
See their book for more. Also
spelled Rothenberger.
RotenburgFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Holstein.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
RothFN:
said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality indicated).
Bonner
proved his origin in Huettengesas,
Isenburg[-Meerholz County].
RothFN:
said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC
Schuerfeld, Kurpfalz.
RothFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Eichenhayn.
According to the Schlitz ML he married a Dechert
woman of Engelroth in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#746).
In 1798 in Boaro there may be reference to this family (Mai1798: Bx50).
RothFN:
said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to
be fromUC EngelrodGL,
[Riedesel Barony].
For 1798 see Mai1798:Kd7,
8).
RothFN:
according to the Goebel FSL this
was the maiden name of Stieb(fromUC
Ext(?), Kurmainz)’s wife. The
1798 census gives the name as Rothardt
(Mai1798:Gb71).
RothFN
said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
RothFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Neuss, Mainz.
RothFN:
the family name of the (2nd?) wife of the Reuber/Reiber
man in the Kolb FSL, see the 1798 census (Mai1798:
Ko07).
RothFN:
said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC
Abentheuer.
RothFN:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter
FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.
RothFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC
Wetzlar. In 1798 the wife’s
maiden name was given as Kuhl (Mai1798:Lb12).
RothFN:
said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned)
and an Ernst nephew was living
with them. The family name may
have been rendered Rudi in 1798 (Mai1798:Mo45).
RothFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Vadenrod.
RothFN:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
fromUC Neudorf.
Roth:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.
RothFN:
said by the Roethling FSL to be
fromUC Stolberg, Rheinland.
RothFN:
a family that settled in Straub
said by the Roth family
chart to be fromUC Antenkirch,
Nassau-Weilburg.
RothFN:
said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC
Neustatt Haardt(?), Kurpfalz.
RothFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Vening, Isenburg.
RothFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
and in Tann marriage records
1762-1767; see Flegel trip.
RothFN:
also see Roten, Rott and Rothe.
RothRN,
Jean: one of the two AHSGR village coordinators for Walter
colony, a leader of the Walter
Research Group, and a prime researcher and author of several of its
reports.
RothGL, Anspach
American
Historical Society of Germans From Russia