Katharina Elisabeth Metzger

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• Name: Katharina Metzger
• Reference Number: 3864
• Residence: 1767, Anton, Saratov, Russia; HH24
• Residence: 1798, Anton, Saratov, Russia

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ROTHERMEL Georg Leonhard * 14.03.1749 Lichtenklingen
oo um 1768 ARNOLD Anna Barbara * 1750 + vor 1775
oo nach 1775 METZGER Katharina Elisabeth * 1756

Lichtenklingen - Jütland - Anton
from http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/origins/r/rothermel_anton.cfm
Johann Georg Rothermel was born in Hammelbach (northwest of Weinheim) on 23 September 1713. He married on 13 February 1741 in Wald-Michelbach to Eva Margaretha Erhard. She had been born 14 October 1714 in Lichtenklingen. They have two sons who were born in Lichtenklingen: Georg Peter (born 4 February 1745) and Georg Leonhard (born 14 March 1749).
The Rothermel family immigrated first to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) and then on to Russia in 1763. They arrived in the colony of Anton on 7 September 1764. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Households No. 6 (Georg), No. 16 (Peter), and No. 24 (Leonhard).
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, 56, & 60.

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MIGRATION OF COLONISTS FROM GERMANY IN 1761 TO SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN AND LATER TO THE VOLGA IN 1763.
In 1761, the Danish king (Duke of Schleswig-Holstein) recruited people from souther Germany to settle in Schleswig-Holstein, to drain the bogs and swamps and make the land productive. Many Germans answered the appeal. Later the worsoning economic situation and resentment by local domestic workmen caused some colonists to break their contract with the king and desert. As the number of desertions increased, provision was made for colonists to apply for permission to leave.
At the same time, czarina Katharina the Great issued the manifesto that encouraged people to come to Russia. Amough the enducements was provision for advance payment of colonist costs for the journey. There was a resident recruiter of colonist in Kiel.
The colonist records in Schleswig show that many colonists left, some requesting permission to do so while others simply deserted without a trace. Transport lists of those leaving from Travemünde and Lübeck are not to be found.
The Kuhlberg lists do provide listings of colonists arriving in Russia. The Volga village census records are another source. By comparing family names and ther names and ages of family members, I come to the conclusion that there is a high probability that many of the families that left Schleswig-Holstein became colonists on the Volga.

Katharina married Georg Leonhard Rothermel about 1775. Georg (son of Johann Georg Rothermel and Eva Margaretha Erhard) was born on 14 Mar 1749 in Lichtenklingen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eva Katharina Rothermel was born in 1777.