Müller (Orlovskaya-1)

The following children born to Johann Dietrich & Anna Catharina Müller are recorded in the parish register of Fauerbach bei Friedberg: (1) Maria Elisabeth, born 30 June 1718; (2) Johann Bernhard, born 1 December 1719; (3) Anna Margaretha, born 29 November 1721; (4) Johann Conrad, born 2 March 1723; (5) Johannes, born 17 April 1726; (6) Anna Elisabeth, born 16 July 1728; (7) Johann Wilhelm, born 10 August 1730; (8) Martin, born 5 April 1733; (9) Anna Elisabeth, born 27 April 1736, died 19 February 1761; and (10) an unnamed child, born 27 October 1743, died 4 November 1743.

Daughter Anna Margaretha Müller married on 2 February 1745 in Fauerbach to Johann Theiß Waßmuth. One of their sons migrated to the Volga German colonies [see Wasmuth Family].

Son Johann Wilhelm Müller married on 28 April 1766 in Elze (on the river Leine) to Anna Christina Weiß, daughter of Johannes Weiß from Ermenrod in Amt Burg-Gemünden.

[Johann] Wilhelm Müller, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Wilhel. Müller and his wife Christina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 where Wilhelm is recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 83 along with his new wife Christina.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Wilhelm Müller came from the German region of Solms. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Fauerbach.