Christoph Müller, a farmer, and his wife Christina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard the 2-masted merchant ship named Anna Katharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.
Christina Müller, widow of Christoph Müller, is recorded on the 1767 census of Mariental in Household No. 40 along with her [new] husband Peter Hertz and a note that Christoph Müller had died along the way to the colony.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christoph Müller came from the German region of Pfalz.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 105.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #856.
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