Heinrich Müller, a miller, and his wife Klara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Johann Heinrich Müller and his wife Anna Clara are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Heinrich Müller, a miller (Müller), his wife Anna Klara, and son Johann Konrad (age 3-weeks) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 86.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Müller came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Heinrich Müller came from the German village of Tra [?] in the Darmstadt region. According to Vera Belyakova Miller, Heinrich Müller came from the village of Traisa, southeast of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 338.
- 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): Wr066.
- Müller (wolgadeutschen.net) - in Russian
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 334.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2519.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7938-7939.
Vera Belyakova Miller
Brent Mai