Johann Just Müller, his wife Anna, and children (Simon, age 13; Anton, age 11; Anna, age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Jost [sic] Müller, his wife Anna, and children (Simon [age not recorded]; Anton, age 11; Anna Elisabeth, age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Just Müller, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Simon, age 16; Anton, age 13; Elisabeth, age 11) are recorded on the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 20 along with step-daughter Katharina [Risch] (age 2) and orphan Ernatnan Meinhardt (age 11). They had arrived in Beauregard on 3 August 1767. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Müller and Meinhardt families.
Johann Jost Müller (age 47), a cobbler (Schuster), his wife Christina (age 39), sons (Anton, age 22; Simon, age 20), and step-children (Joseph Ritter, age 9; Christian Friedrich Ritter, age 4; Katharina Risch, age 9) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 41 along with a note that Simon married Elisabeth Sutter (age 22) and they had a son Johann Christian (born 25 July 1779).
The 1798 census of Katharinenstadt records son Simon Müller from Beauregard in Household No. Ka043.
The 1767 census records that Johann Just Müller came from the village of Fromhausen in Holland. The 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register records that members of this family were born in a variety of places:
- Jost Müller born in Frohnhausen Oranien in the Nassau-Lüneburg region
- (wife) Christina Elisabeth born in Lichtenlau in the Hessen-Kassel region
- Anton & Simon Müller born in Frohnhausen Oranien in the Nassau-Lüneburg region
- Joseph & Christian Friedrich Ritter born in Katharinenstadt
- Katharina Resch born in Beauregard
- Elisabeth Sutter born in Surdabinbry Petroffsky in the Dittelheim Grafschaft
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 41).
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 853.
- 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): Ka043.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 182.
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- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4482-4486.
Brent Mai