Peter Müller, a carpenter, and his wife Anna, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pink named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Widower Peter Müller, a carpenter (Zimmermann), settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 5.
In 1788, Johann Christoph, Georg Franz, and Christina Dorothea Müller moved from Kratzke to Frank.
Christoph Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk132.
Franz Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Frank in Household No. Fk133.
The Movement Table attached to the 1798 census of Frank records that Dorothea Müller, daughter of Peter Müller, married in the colony of Walter in 1798.
Dorothea Arendt née Müller and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Walter in Household No. Wt100.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that this Peter Müller came from the German region of Isenburg.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 97.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Fk132, Fk133, Wt100, Mv0642, Mv1422.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 420.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #453.
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