Widower Anton Müller of Horbach and Maria Eva Müller, daughter of Adam Reising from Nieder-Steinbach, married on 10 February 1743.
Anton Müller and Maria Eva Müller had three children in Horbach: (1) Johannes, baptized 23 July 1745; (2) Johann Adam (baptism not found); and (3) Christian, baptized 22 May 1752.
Widow Eva Müller and her sons ([a] Johann, age 21; [b] Johann Adam, age 18; [c] Christian, age 15) 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.
[a] Johann Müller and his [new] wife Katharina Beil are recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 43.
Johann Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd19 along with a note that sons Friedrich & Heinrich were working in the colony of Semenovka.
Nikolaus Müller, presumed son of Johann Müller, relocated from Hildmann to Pfeifer in 1790.
Nikolaus Müller from Hildmann and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Pfeifer in Household No. Pf12.
[b] Adam Müller (age 19) and his wife Magdalena (age 25) are recorded on the 1767 census of Seelmann in Household No. 75 along with a note that he "ran away from the colony 3 weeks ago" and his debt was assumed by the community. They had arrived in Seelmann on 16 August 1767.
Adam Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Hildmann in Household No. Hd24.
[c] Orphan Christian Müller (age 15) is recorded on the 1767 census of Hildmann in Household No. 5 along with the Kaspar Haas family. There is no relationship recorded between the Müller and Haas families.
Christian Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Leichtling in Household No. Lg44.
The death of Christian Müller in 1821 is recorded on the 1834 census of Leichtling in Household No. 62.
Andreas Müller, grandson of Christian Müller, from Leichtling and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Marienfeld.
Georg Müller from Marienfeld and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Josefstal in Household No. 98.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Eva Müller and her family came from the German region of Hanau while the 1767 census records that her son Johann Müller came from the German region of Hannover.
- 1834 Leichtling Census (Household No. 62).
- 1857 Josefstal Census (Household No. 98).
- 1857 Marienfeld Census.
- Horst, Irma. "Kommissarius Johann Facius und seine Kolonisten." Heimatbuch der Deutschen aus Russland: 2020 (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e. V., 2020): 259-265.
- 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): 281.
- 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): Hd19, Hd24, Lg44, Pf12, Mv0844.
- Parish register of St. Anna Church in Somborn.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 98, 107.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 163.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2049.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1982): 146.
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