There are two Möller families from Friedewald that eventually settled in Zürich. Their relationship to each other, if any, needs further research.
(1) Conrad Möller, son of Anton Möller, married on 9 May 1751 in Friedewald to Cunigunde Brod, daughter of Adam & Gertrude Brod. Cunigunde had been born 5 June 1726 in Friedewald. [Conrad's oldest son was born in about 1750, so Cunigunde Brod is most likely his second wife.]
The births of the following children born to Conrad Möller & Cunigunde Brod are recorded in the parish register of Friedewald: (1) Anton, born 13 December 1752; (2) Anna Margarethe, born 20 July 1754; (3) Anna Catharina, born 16 July 1758; and (4) Anna Catharina Elisabeth, born 3 April 1763.
Konrad Müller, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Johann, age 16; Anton, age 12; Anna, age 10; Katharina, age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 September 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
Conrad Müller, his wife Cunigunda, and children (Johannes, age 17; Anton, age 13; Martha, age 11) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Philippsfeld on 3 August 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 21.
In 1769, Konrad Müller and his family moved from Philippsfeld to Zürich.
Johannes [recorded as Anton on the Agricultural Census] Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr16.
Johann[es] Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr47.
(2) Johann Heinrich Möller, son of Adam Heinrich Möller, was born 5 June 1719 in Rotenburg.
Johann Heinrich Möller married on 5 October 1751 in Friedewald to Maria Elisabeth Ley, daughter of Michael Ley.
The births of the following child born to Johann Heinrich Möller & Maria Elisabeth Ley is recorded in the parish register of Friedewald, along with a note that father Johann Heinrich Möller was already deceased with his son was born: (1) Nicolaus, born 28 June 1754 Friedewald.
Nikolaus Müller (age 14) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 29 along with his stepfather Johann Georg Hornlein. [See Hornlein Family.]
Nikolaus Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Zürich in Household No. Zr05.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Müller came from the German village of Friedewald in Hessen.
This surname is originally recorded as Möller in German documents but appears to have become Müller in documents in Russia.
- 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): Zr05, Zr16, Zr47, Mv2284.
- Parish register of Friedewald.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 407.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5289.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #3384-3388.
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