Johann Bernhardt, a farmer, his wife Sabina, and children (Johann, age 20; Anna, age 16½; Georg, age 12; Johannes, 9; Friedrich, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Catharina under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Jenßen.
Johann Frid. Bernhard, his wife Barbara, and children (Johann Heinr., age 21; Christiana, age 17; Joh. Georg, age 13; Johannes, age 10; Friedrich, age 6) are recorded on a list of of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
In 1770, widow Sabina Barbara Bernhardt and her children moved from Hockerberg to Orlovskaya.
Daughter Anna Christina née Bernhardt (age 23) is recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 97 as the wife of Johann Michael Hendel. [See Hendel Family.]
Bernhard siblings (Heinrich, age 25; Johann Georg, age 18; Johannes, age 12; Friedrich, age 10) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 214 along with Maria Dorothea Dermis (age 16).
In 1778, Johann Bernhard moved from Orlovskaya to Katharinenstadt.
In 1785, Georg Bernhard moved from Orlovskaya to Katharinenstadt.
Heinrich Bernhard from Orlovskaya and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka060.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Bernhardt came from the German region of Hessen. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that daughter Anna Christina Bernhardt came from the German village of of Erbach in the Hessen region. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that the remaining Bernhardt siblings came from the German village of Erbach in the Hessen region.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Households No. 97, 214).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 498.
- 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): Ka060, Mv0861, Mv2143, Mv2161.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3902.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5945-5951.
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