Har(d)t (Norka)

Johann Georg Hart married on 20 March 1727 in Wolf to Anna Margaretha Helferich who was also from Wolf.

The baptism of the following children of Johann Georg Hart & Anna Margaretha Helferich are recorded in the parish register of Wolf: (1) Adrian Hart, baptized 23 July 1730; and (2) Anna Catharina, baptized 21 February 1743.

Adrian Hart married on 12 November 1758 in Wolf to Anna Maria Jacobi, daughter of Conrad Jacobi & Anna Barbara Weinmuth from Dudenrod. Anna Maria Jacobi had been baptized in Wolf on 9 March 1733.

The baptisms of the following children born to Adrian & Anna Maria Hart are recorded in the parish register of Wolf: (1) Dorothea Catharina Frederica, baptized 19 August 1759; (2) Johann Adam, baptized 2 November 1760; (3) Johann Heinrich, baptized 9 April 1762; and (4) Johannes, baptized 11 December 1763.

[Adrian's father, Johann Georg Hart, was buried on 16 September 1759 in Wolf. His mother was buried there on 18 June 1765. Anna Maria's father, Conrad Jacobi, was buried 20 October 1761 in Wolf. Her mother, Anna Barbara, was buried there on 9 January 1764.]

Andreas [sic] Hardt, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev. Traveling with them was his sister Anna Katharina and her husband Johannes Mohr [See Mohr Family].

They settled in the Volga German colony of Norka on 2 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 200.

Adrian [sic] Hardt, his wife Anna Maria, and sons (Adrian [sic], age 3; Nikolaus, age 1-week) are recorded on the 1775 census of Norka in Household No. 2.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Andreas Hardt came from the German district of Isenburg.