Nikolaus Bardt, a farmer, his wife Maria, and children (Johann, age 12; Maria, age 12; Dorothea, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 2 August 1766 aboard an English frigate named Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Nicolaus Bart [sic], his wife Barbara, and children (Albertus, age 10½; Maria Elisabeth, age 10½; Dorothea Elisabeth, age 8) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Widower Nikolaus Bardt and his children (Albert, age 12; Maria, age 12; Dorothea, age 10) are recorded on the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 15. They had arrived in Kaneau on 3 August 1767.
In 1785, Nikolaus Bardt and his family moved to Paulskaya.
The widow Katharina Bardt, her son Johann Albrecht [sic], daughter-in-law Katharina Elisabeth née Grün, and grandchildren ([a] Johann Peter, age 14; Anna Louisa, age 12; Anna Eva, age 10; [b] Johann Gottfried, age 8; [c] Johannes Peter, age 3; Katharina Eleonora, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1798 census of Paulskaya in Household No. Pl33.
[a] Peter Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 86.
The death of Peter Bardt in 1841 is recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 117.
Christian Peter Bardt, son of Peter Bardt, his family, and his siblings are recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 130.
[b] Johann Gottfried Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 121.
Johann Gottfried Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 151.
Gottfried Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 164.
[c] The death of Johann Peter Bardt in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 86.
Orphaned siblings [presumed children of Johann Peter Bardt] Elisabeth Bardt (age 6) & Johann [Christian] Bardt (age 3) are recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 92.
Christian Bardt is recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 123.
Christian Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 186.
[d] Heinrich Christian Bardt, another brother of Peter, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 122.
Heinrich Christian Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 152.
Heinrich Christian Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 165.
[e] Christoph Wilhelm Bardt, another brother of Peter, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 92.
Christoph Wilhelm Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 123.
Christoph Wilhelm Bardt and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 136.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Nikolaus Barth came from the German region of Nassau.
- 1834 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 86, 92, 121, 122).
- 1850 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 117, 123, 151, 152).
- 1857 Paulskaya Census (Households No. 130, 136, 164, 165, 186).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 685.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Pl33, Mv1132.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 246.
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- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3216-3220.
Brent Mai