Johann Michael Müller, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), and his wife Maria Sidonia arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Johann Michel [sic] Müller is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Michael Müller and his wife Maria Sidonia are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 66. They had settled there on 15 July 1767.
In 1788, widow Katharina Graf married Michael Müller in Seelmann.
The widow and children of Michael Müller are recorded on the 1798 census of Seelmann in Household No. Sm23.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann Michael Müller came from the German village of Ingolstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 269.
- 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): Sm23, Mv1864.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 161.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1943.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1521.
Brent Mai
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Entry from the 1767 census of Seelmann recording Michael Müller and his wife.
Source: Anonymous2.