Franz Hartung (age 31), a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Anna Maria (age 25), and daughters (Anna Maria, age 6; Magdalena, age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Mariental in Household No. 44. They had arrived in Mariental on 14 June 1766.
Widow Marianna [sic] Hartung (age 53) is recorded on the 1798 census of Mariental in Household No. Mt33.
The 1767 census records that Franz Hartung came from the German village of Eger.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Hartung family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): Mt33.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 2005): 106.
Brent Mai