Martin Wickhardt, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his family arrived in the Volga German colony of Louis on 14 June 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 20.
In 1788, Martin Wickart and his family moved from Louis to Katharinenstadt.
Martin Wickart from Louis and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka134.
Johann Ernst Wickart, son of Martin Wickart, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 267.
The 1767 census records that Martin Wickhardt came from the German village of Hosenfeld in the region of Fulda.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Wickart family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1834 Katharinenstadt Census (Household No. 267).
- 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): Ka134, Mv1573.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 84.
Brent Mai