Johann Conrad Müller, son of Johann Conrad & Anna Maria Müller, was born on 8 July 1719 and baptized the same day in Ilbeshausen.
Catharina Schüßler, daughter of Ludwig & Anna Maria Schüßler, was born in Grebenhain on 25 March1722 and baptized there on 26 March 1722.
Johann Conrad Müller & Catharina Schüßler married in Ilbeshausen on 23 November 1741.
The Ilbeshausen parish register records the baptisms of twelve children: (1) Anna Margaretha, born 9 October 1742, baptized 10 October 1742; (2) Anna Maria, born 2 July 1744, baptized 5 July 1744; (3) Anna Maria, born 3 May 1746, baptized 5 May 1746; (4) Johann Heinrich, born 11 April 1748, baptized 12 April 1748; (5) Anna Catharina, born 5 January 1750, baptized 6 January 1750; (6) Peter, born 14 June 1751, baptized 15 June 1751; (7) Johannes, born 15 October 1753, baptized 16 October 1753; (8) Anna Elisabeth, born 10 April 1757, baptized 11 April 1757; (9) Anna Maria, born 6 December 1759, baptized 7 December 1759; (10) Maria Elisabeth, born 17 February 1762, baptized 18 February 1762; (11) Anna Maria, born 23 February 1764, baptized 26 February 1764; and (12) Eva Catharina, born 18 April 1766, baptized 20 April 1766.
Konrad Müller, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 20; Johann Peter, age 18; Johann Peter [again], age 14; Anna Elisabeth, age 10; Anna Maria, age 8; Maria Elisabeth, age 6; Anna Maria [again], age 3; Eva Katharina, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Detlov Mergerg.
Konrad Müller, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Katharina, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 20; Peter, age 18; Johannes, age 14; Anna Maria, age 8; Maria Elisabeth, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
Konrad and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 14.
Widower Konrad Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm117.
Son Johannes Müller is recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm010 as the son-in-law of Christian Bertel. However, the 1834 census of Grimm (Household No. 69) records that Johannes Müller was the brother-in-law of Christian Bertel.
Maria Agnessa Müller, widow of Peter Müller (son of Konrad Müller), and her family are recorded on the 1834 census of Grimm in Household No. 192.
Heinrich Müller, son of Peter Müller, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Grimm in Household No. 217 along with a note that his son Heinrich Müller and his family relocated to the daughter colony of Erlenbach in 1852.
Heinrich Müller from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Erlenbach in Household No. 50.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Konrad Müller came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Grimm Census (Household No. 192).
- 1850 Grimm Census (Household No. 211).
- 1857 Erlenbach Census (Household No. 50).
- 1857 Grimm Census (Household No. 217).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Andreas Idt, Georg Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Gm010, Gm117.
- Parish register of Crainfeld (including Grebenhain).
- Parish register of Ilbeshausen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 78.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5194.
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