At the time of his father's death in 1832, he was a paper manufacturer near Denny.
Pigot's Directory lists Robert Hart, paper maker of Glasgow at South Woodside Mill in 1837.
He was a papermaker at Crossbank in Glasgow when he married Janet Alice Millar, whose father was a flour miller, in 1838.
They had nine children; four daughters and five sons, three of whom, born 1844-1847 were not baptised until 1853. This may have been related to the split in the Presbyterian Church around this time. The Harts appear to have been keen followers of the Free Church. Robert was a papermaker living in Parkburn when they were baptised at Kilsyth in 1853. Their second child, Jessie, died in 1849, aged 8 years.
Robert, a retired ironfounder aged 66, was living at 4 Cecil Street, Paisley Road, Govan when he died in 1876.
His career appears to be an interesting example of the progress of the industrial revolution in machinery from milling to ship building.
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