Widow Christina Bernhardt is recorded on the 1798 census of Basel in Household No. Bs03.
This Christina Bernhardt may be the one recorded with her husband Johannes , a farmer, and sons (Anton, age 8; Johannes, age 1½) who arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johannes Bernhard, his wife Christina, and sons (Anton, age 8; Johannes, age ½) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Bernhardt, a farmer, his wife Anna [Christina?], and sons (Anton, age 10; Bernhard, age 3) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Nieder-Monjou in Household No.25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann[es] Bernhardt came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Wehr [perhaps Wehrheim] in the Hessen region.
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): 33.
- 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): Bs03.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 210.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4787.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3363-3366.
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