Balzer [sic] Bernhardt, a farmer, his wife Marianna, and children (Anna, age 16¼; Peter, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 27 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Слон (Slon - Elephant in Russian) under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
Balthasar Bernhardt (age 58), a farmer, his wife Maria Anna (age 36), and children (Barbara, age 17; Peter, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Leichtling on 14 June 1767.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balzer [sic] Bernhardt came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Balthasar Bernhardt came from the German village of Aschaffenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Bernhardt family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #550.
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