Heinrich Müller, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Лапоминк (Lapomink - a Russian river) under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Krykov.
Johann Heinrich Müller (age 25), a farmer, his wife Maria Margaretha (age 36), son Johann Peter (age 1), and stepsons (Johann Georg [Grossmann], age 18; Johann Christoph [Grossmann], age 14) are recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 12. They had arrived in Warenburg on 12 May 1767. [See Grossmann Family.]
Widower Heinrich Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr092.
The death of Heinrich Müller in 1802 is recorded on the 1811 census of Warenburg in Household No. Wr092.
Johann Christian Müller, son of Heinrich Müller, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Warenburg in Household No. 169.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Heinrich Müller came from the German region of Hannover. The 1767 census records that they came from the German village of Bothfeld near Hannover.
- 1811 Warenburg Census (Household No. 92).
- 1834 Warenburg Census (Household No. 169).
- 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): 94, 117.
- 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): Wr092.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 323.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #418, #643.
Brent Mai