Anna Margaretha (Barthmann) Harder
[Margret Anna Harder]

Irish–Danish–German Heritage

Overview | Birth and death | Residences and occupations | Immigration | Reference list

Overview

Anna Margaretha (Barthmann) Harder data (1865–1930)
Sources: Data from: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800–1882, digitized microfilm images, list 83, microcopy 425, roll 108, National Archives Microfilm Publications (Washington, DC: The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1963), image 258, FamilySearch index, Marguerite Barthmann, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8CJ-F5G. Iowa County Marriages: Iowa, County Marriages, 1838–1934, Henry Hardie and Maggie Barthmann, no image, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XJD3-PQZ.
Names	German name: Anna Margaretha (Barthmann) Harder	Smallpox vaccination certificate (as Anna Margaretha Barthmann)
Names	American name: Margret Anna Harder	Iowa Death Certificate Index
Sex	Female	—
Birth	Date: 9 January 1865	Smallpox vaccination certificate
Birth	Place: Vordorf, Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation	Smallpox vaccination certificate
Death	Date: 28 February 1930 (age 65)	Iowa Death Certificate Index
Death	Place: Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, United States	Iowa Death Certificate Index
Burial	[Unknown]	—
Parents	Father: Erhard Barthmann	1925 Iowa Census (as Ehrhart Barthman)
Parents	Mother: Sabina Strößenreuther	1925 Iowa Census (as Labina Stroessenreuter)
Marriage	Spouse: Henry Frederick Harder	Iowa County Marriages (as Henry Hardie and Maggie Barthmann)
	Date: 6 October 1890 (age 25)	Iowa County Marriages (as Henry Hardie and Maggie Barthmann)
	Place: Carroll, Carroll, Iowa, United States	Iowa County Marriages (as Henry Hardie and Maggie Barthmann)
Children	4	1900 U.S. Census, 1910 U.S. Census
Immigration to United States	3 August 1882 (age 17), Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia

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Birth and death

Anna Margaretha Barthmann was born on 9 January 1865 in the village of Vordorf, Vordorf, Wunsiedel, Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation. Now Vordorf is in Tröstau, Wunsiedel, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Federal Republic of Germany.

Margret Anna Harder died on 28 February 1930 in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, United States.

Birth

The following table contrasts the administrative units of government around Vordorf when Margaretha was born there in 1865 with the current ones:

Vordorf within Germany, 1865 and current
English		German
1865 Anna Margaretha Barthmann birth	Current	1865 Anna Margaretha Barthmann birth	Current
Sources: Data from: Heyberger et al. 1868, col. 959 [p. 324; in German]. Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online, s.v. “Vordorf” [site in German].
Vordorf [locality]	Vordorf [locality]	Ort Vordorf	Ort Vordorf
Vordorf municipality	Tröstau municipality	Gemeinde Vordorf	Gemeinde Tröstau
Wunsiedel regional judicial district	Wunsiedel administrative district	Landgericht Wunsiedel	Landkreis Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge [Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains]
Wunsiedel district office	—	Bezirksamt Wunsiedel	—
Upper Franconia administrative region	Upper Franconia administrative region	Regierungsbezirk Oberfranken	Regierungsbezirk Oberfranken
Kingdom of Bavaria	Bavaria [state]	Königreich Bayern	Freistaat Bayern
German Confederation	Federal Republic of Germany	Deutscher Bund	Bundesrepublik Deutschland

The smallpox vaccination certificate below shows that Margaretha Barthmann’s full name was Anna Margaretha Barthmann and that she was born in Vordorf in the Wunsiedel area of Bavaria on 9 January 1865:

[Image: Anna Margaretha Barthmann immunization record] — Smallpox vaccination certificate for Anna Margaretha Barthmann, 31 May 1865

Transcription and translation of smallpox vaccination certificate for Anna Margaretha Barthmann, 31 May 1865
Source: German version reprinted from photocopy, Wunsiedel, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation, smallpox vaccination certificate, 31 May 1865, Anna Margaretha Barthmann; photocopy obtained by Harry V. Barthman (subject’s nephew) while visiting Bavaria, late 1970s; transcription and translation by IrishDanishGermanHeritage. Note: Litt. = Latin littera ‘letter (of the alphabet)’ (used before a letter in the way that No. is used before a numeral). German kgl. = königlich ‘royal’ and k. bayer. = königlich bayerisch ‘royal Bavarian’. Schönbrunn village is southeast of Vordorf village. Wunsiedel town is near Schönbrunn, east-southeast of Vordorf.
English translation		(A.) Vaccination Certificate. The undersigned chief public-health officer of Wunsiedel police district herewith certifies on the basis of vaccination register no. 93 for the year 1864 for Schönbrunn district that Anna Margaretha Barthmann born in Vordorf on the 9 ^th of January 1865 was vaccinated during the regular (special) public smallpox-vaccination in Schönbrunn on the 24th of May, and that, per the performed inspection on the 31st of May, the vaccination was reported to have been of indisputable success. Attested in Wunsiedel on the 31st of May 1865 Royal District Chief Public-Health Officer Dr Jahn [stamp] Royal Bavarian District Chief Public-Health Officer of Wunsiedel

German original		(Litt.A.) Impf-Zeugniss. Der unterfertigte Bezirksarzt des Polizeibezirks Wunsiedel beurkundet hiermit auf dem Grund der Impfliste des Bezirkes Schönbrun vom Jahre 1864 Ziffer 93 daß Anna Margaretha Barthman geboren zu Vordorf den 9 ^ten Januar 1865 bei der ordentlichen (außerordentlichen) öffentlichen Schutzpocken-Impfung zu Schönbrun den 24 Mai geimpft worden, und daß gemäß der am 31 Mai vorgenommenen Controlle die Impfung von unzweifelhaftem Erfolge gewesen sey. Gegeben zu Wunsiedel den 31 Mai 1865 kgl. Bezirksarzt Dr Jahn [Stempel] K. Bayer. Bezirks-Arzt zu Wunsiedel

Death

Death Certificate Index for Margret Anna Harder
Source: Data from table by State Historical Society of Iowa, “Death Certificate Index — Cerro Gordo County (July 1921–1939),” 18 March 2015, p. 80, (PDF) https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/trlx/vital-records/cerrogordo-county.pdf (via Vital Records: State Records Archive Indexes, https://iowaculture.gov/history/research/collections/vital-records). ^aMargret’s smallpox vaccination certificate and the 1900 U.S. Census give her year of birth as 1865 not 1864.
Name	Harder, Margret Anna
Birth date	09 Jan. 1864^a
Birth place	Germany
Death date	28 Feb. 1930
County	Cerro Gordo
Mother’s maiden name
Number	A17-0012
Box	D2608

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Residences and occupations

United States and Iowa Census data for Anna Margaretha (Barthmann) Harder
Year	Location	Name	Relation	Sex	Age	Marital status	Birthplace	Father’s birthplace	Mother’s birthplace	Occupation	Other
Sources: Data from: 1895 Iowa State Census, Cherokee county, population schedule, Pitcher township, p. 424 (stamped), dwelling 66, family 66, Harder; Iowa State Historical Department Museum and Archives (Des Moines, IA); FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Maggie Harder, image 378, citing State Historical Society (Des Moines, IA) and Family History Library microfilm 1,020,342, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTS5-DL6. 1900 United States Census, Cherokee county, Iowa, population schedule, Afton township, enumeration district 13, sheet 5B, dwelling 83, family 85, Harder; FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Maggie A Harder, image 10, citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T623 and Family History Library microfilm 1,240,423, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M92C-DHG. 1905 Iowa State Census, Cherokee county, population schedule, Pitcher township, Aurelia post office, card 68, Maggie Harder; FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Maggie Harder, image 3634, citing State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA) and Family History Library microfilm 1,430,332, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2SZT-3XS. 1910 United States Census, Cherokee county, Iowa, population schedule, Aurelia town, enumeration district 24, sheet 12B, dwelling 214, family 222, Harder; FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Margaret Harder, image 24, citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T624 and Family History Library microfilm 1,374,409, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML16-4GR. 1915 Iowa State Census, Cerro Gordo county, census card, Bath township, Rockwell post office, card 473, Mrs. Maggie Harder; Iowa State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA); FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Maggie Harder, image 1256, citing Iowa State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA) and FHL microfilm 1,437,529, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4R-X96W. 1920 United States Census, Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, population schedule, Bath township, enumeration district 20, sheet 10A, dwelling 61, family 61, Harder; FamilySearch, indexed database and digitized image, Margret Harder, image 7, citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication T625 and Family History Library microfilm 1,820,482, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8BZ-3MV. 1925 Iowa State Census, Cerro Gordo county, population census, Bath township, Mason City post office, book 3, lines 71–74, Neville; Iowa State Historical Department, Historical Museum and Archives (Des Moines, IA); FamilySearch, indexed database and 3 digitized images, Margarete Harder, images 51–53, citing Iowa State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA) and Family History Library microfilm 1,429,256, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQW-BJ4F.
1890	[Mostly destroyed by fire in 1921]
16 May 1895	Pitcher township, Cherokee county, Iowa, United States	Harder, Henry		Male	39	Married	Germany	Foreign	[?]	Farming	—
		Harder, Maggie		Female	30	Married	Germany	[?Foreign]	Foreign	~~Keeping house~~	—
		Harder, Maggie		Female	2	Single	Cherokee Ia	[?Native]	Native	—	—
		Harder, Frederick		Male	1	Single	Cherokee Ia	Native	[?Native]	—	—
8 June 1900	Afton township, Cherokee county, Iowa, United States	Harder, Henry F.	Head	Male	45 (June 1854)	Married (9 years)	Germany	Germany	Germany	Farmer	Immigration: 1882, 18 years in U.S., naturalized; able to speak English
		Harder, Maggie A.	Wife	Female	35 (Jan 1865)	Married (9 years)	Germany	Germany	Germany	—	4 children, 2 living; immigration: 1881, 19 years in U.S.; able to speak English
		Harder, Maggie B	Daughter	Female	8 (Mar 1892)	Single	Iowa	Germany	Germany	At school	—
		Harder, Fred E	Son	Male	6 (Nov 1893)	Single	Iowa	Germany	Germany	At school	—
1905	Pitcher township (Aurelia post office), Cherokee county, Iowa, United States	[Household members inferred from other censuses and 1905 individual cards with sequential nos. 66–70]
		Bordman, Erheart		Male	75	Widowed	Germany	Germany	Germany	Retired	22 years in U.S., 20 years in Iowa, not naturalized
		Harder, Henry		Male	52	Married	Germany	Germany	Germany	Farming	21 years in U.S., 19 years in Iowa, naturalized
		Harder, Maggie		Female	40	Married	Germany	Germany	Germany	—	22 years in U.S., 20 years in Iowa
		Harder, Maggie S.		Female	13	—	Pitcher Twp. Ia	Germany	Germany	—	13 years in Iowa
		Harder, Fred		Male	11	—	Pitcher Twp. Ia	Germany	Germany	—	11 years in Iowa
9 May 1910	Aurelia town, Pitcher township, Cherokee county, Iowa, United States	Harder, Henry	head	Male	57	Married (20 years)	Germany Ger	Germany Ger	Germany Ger	farmer	Able to speak English
		Harder, Margaret	wife	Female	42	Married (20 years)	Ger German	Ger German	Ger German	—	4 children, 2 living; able to speak English
		Harder, Margaret	dau	Female	18	Single	Iowa	Ger German	Ger German	—	—
		Harder, Freddie	son	Male	16	Single	Iowa	Ger German	Ger German	—	—
1915	Bath township (Rockwell post office), Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, United States	[Household members inferred from other censuses and 1915 individual cards with sequential nos. 472–474]
		Harder, Henry		Male	63	Married	Germany	Germany	Germany	Farming	34 years in U.S., 34 years in Iowa, naturalized; highest school grade completed: common [school] 8
		Harder, Mrs. Maggie		Female	50	Married	Germany	Germany	Germany	House Keeping	33 years in U.S., 33 years in Iowa; highest school grade completed: common [school] 8
		Harder, Fred		Male	21	Single	Iowa	Germany	Germany	—	21 years in U.S., 21 years in Iowa; highest school grade completed: common [school] 8
21 January 1920	Bath township, Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, United States	Harder, Henry	Head	Male	67	Married	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Farmer: General farm	Immigration: 1882, naturalized; able to speak English
		Harder, Margret	Wife	Female	55	Married	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Germany (mother tongue: German)	none	Immigration: un, naturalized; able to speak English
		Harder, Fred	Son	Male	25	Married	Iowa	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Germany (mother tongue: German)	Farmer: General farm	—
		Harder, Nellie	Daughter in law	Female	26	Married	Iowa	Iowa	Iowa	none	—
		[Grandchild]
1 March 1925	Bath township (Mason City post office), Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, United States	Neville, Margarete	Head	Female	33	Widowed	Iowa	Germany (Harder Henry, age 72)	Germany (Barthma Margaret, age 60)	Agricultural Pursuits	Highest reader completed: 8; parents married in Iowa
		[Child]
		Harder, Henry	Father	Male	72	Married	Germany	Germany (Harder Fred)	Germany (Rohart Charlotte)	—	Naturalized: 7; highest reader completed: 4; parents married in Germany
		Harder, Margarete	Mother	Female	60	Married	Germany	Germany (Barthman Ehrhart)	Germany (Stroessenreuter Labina)	—	Naturalized: 7; highest reader completed: 3; parents married in Germany
1930	[Deceased]

Transcription of 1915 Iowa State Census, farm-animal statement, for Henry Harder farm
Farm Animals on Farm, Jan. 1, 1915
Animals	Age in Years	Number	Value
Source: Reprinted from digitized microfilm image, 1915 Iowa State Census, Cerro Gordo county, farm-animal statement, Bath township, Rockwell post office, card 472 (reverse side), Henry Harder; Iowa State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA); FamilySearch, indexed database and 2 digitized images, Henry Harder, image 1254, citing Iowa State Historical Department (Des Moines, IA) and FHL microfilm 1,437,529, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4R-X963.
Calves	Under 1	4	$ 40
Steers	1 and under 2	3	60
Steers	2 and under 3	1	40
Steers	3 and over
Bulls	1 and over	1	40
Heifers	1 and under 2	3	60
Cows kept for milk	2 and over	6	192
Cows not kept for milk	2 and over
Colts	Under 1
Horses	1 and under 2	1	60
Horses	2 and over	7	700
Mules	All ages
Lambs	Under 1
Sheep (Ewes)	1 and over
Sheep (Rams & Wethers)	1 and over
Swine	Under 6 mos.	10	48
Swine	6 mos. & over
Swine lost by Cholera in 1914	—
Goats	All ages
Asses and Burros	All ages

Fowls, all kinds		200	80
Registered Animals, Jan. 1, 1915 (Include also all these in table above)
	Breed	Number	Value
Stallions			$
Mares
Cattle
Sheep
Swine

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Immigration

Anna Margaretha Barthmann; her father, Erhard Barthmann; her mother, Sabina (Strößenreuther) Barthmann; and her younger brother, Andreas Barthmann, immigrated to America together in 1882.

They embarked at the Port of Antwerp, Belgium, and crossed the Atlantic on the SS Switzerland. On 3 August 1882 they passed through the Port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Ship manifest

The ship manifest for Anna Margaretha Barthmann is transcribed below (immigration card not found):

Transcription of ship manifest for Erhard, Sabina, Margaretha, and Andreas Barthmann, 3 August 1882

Form No. 2.–B.	International Navigation Company, Red Star Line.					2227.–6,17,’80.–CA Bks.
	Report or Manifest of all Passengers taken on board the S.S. Switzerland whereof John Clarke Jamison is Master, from Antwerp Belgium burthen 2816 Tons and owned by International Navigation Company of Philadelphia and bound to Philadelphia

Names

Age

Sex

Occupation

To what Country belonging

Country of which it is their intention to become Inhabitants

Number and Names of Passengers who died on the Voyage

Sources: Reprinted from digitized microfilm images, list 83, microcopy 425, roll 108, in Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, 1800–1882, National Archives Microfilm Publications (Washington, DC: The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1963), image 257, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18402-93249-98?cc=1908535 and image 258, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18402-92436-97?cc=1908535 [FamilySearch index, Erhard, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8CJ-F5M; Sabina, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8CJ-F59; Andreas, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8CJ-F5S; and Margaretha, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8CJ-F5G].

The manifest is dated 3–4 August 1882 in the microfilm record (FamilySearch image 254, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18402-92053-92?cc=1908535), affirmed by the boarding office on 3 August 1882 (FamilySearch image 275, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18402-93712-8?cc=1908535), and affirmed by the ship’s master on 4 August 1882 (FamilySearch image 274, https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18402-93938-48?cc=1908535).

Note: Margaretha and Andreas’s ages are correct, but Erhard was 52 not 42 and Sabina was 48 not 40.

[…]

41 Barthmann Edward

Farmer

Germany

U.S.

42 Barthmann Savina

Germany

U.S.

43 Barthmann Andreas

Germany

U.S.

[…]

63 Barthmann Marguerite

Domestic

Germany

U.S.

United States information

The United States of the time is profiled in the table below:

Profile of 1882 America
Population	1880 U.S. Census: 50,189,209
Population		Source: 1880 Fast Facts, United States Census Bureau, https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/1880_fast_facts.html.
Number of states	38 (most recent: Colorado, 1876)
Number of states		Source: States and Their Admission to the Union, About Education, About.com, http://americanhistory.about.com/od/states/a/state_admission.htm.
President	Chester A. Arthur (in office 1881–1885)
President		Source: The U.S. Presidents, About Education, About.com, http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldleaders/a/uspresidents.htm.
Number of immigrant arrivals	788,992 (250,630 from German Empire)
Number of immigrant arrivals		Source: Table 9.—“Immigration to the United States, 1820 to 1910 [By Country of Origin],” in Immigration Commission 1911, 34.
Arrival day	On 3 August 1882: U.S. Congress passed the 1882 Immigration Act, levying a fifty-cent immigrant head-tax on shipping companies (to help pay for immigration regulation) and barring convicts, lunatics, idiots, and those who would be a burden on society.
Arrival day		Source: United States Congress 1883, 214.
New American slang	ca. 1880s: beats me, bossy, catch on (understand; become popular), honey (sweetheart), loads of
New American slang		Source: Kipfer & Chapman 2007, svv. [the individual terms].

[Image: Map of United States] — Map of United States at arrival of Anna Margaretha Barthmann on 3 August 1882 (38 states)

[Image: U.S. dollar coin] — 1882 U.S. dollar

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Reference list

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online: Das Portal zu Geschichte und Kultur des Freistaats [Bavarian State Library Online: The Portal to the History and Culture of the State], http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/ [site in German].
Heyberger, Joseph, Christian Schmitt, August Wilhelm von Wachter. 1868. Bavaria: Landes- und Volkskunde des Königreichs Bayern [Bavaria: Study of the Country and People of the Kingdom of Bavaria], vol. 5. Munich: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt der J.G. Cotta’schen Buchhandlung [Literary-artistic Institute of J. G. Cotta’s Bookstore], https://books.google.com/books?id=fQNKAAAAcAAJ.
Immigration Commission. 1911. Reports of the Immigration Commission. Statistical Review of Immigration, 1820–1910. Distribution of Immigrants, 1850–1900. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, https://archive.org/details/reportsofimmigra03unitrich.
Kipfer, Barbara Ann, and Robert L. Chapman, eds. 2007. Dictionary of American Slang. 4th ed. New York: Collins.
United States Congress. 1883. 47th United States Congress, Session 1, chapter 376: An Act to Regulate Immigration, 3 August 1882. In The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, From December, 1881, to March, 1883, vol. 22. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, https://books.google.com/books?id=eDE3AAAAIAAJ.

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