Valentin Müller, son of Johann Müller (a linenweaver from Lauterbach) & Anna Margaretha Weitz, was baptized on 21 May 1766 in St. Jakob's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Johann Müller, a farmer, his wife Anna Margaretha, and children (Dorothea, age 6½; Andreas, age 2; Valentin, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard a galliot named Der Junge Mattias (The Young Mattias) under the command of Skipper David Wohlert.
Anna Margaretha [Müller], widow of a craftsman (Handwerker), and her children (Maria Rosina, age 6; Johann Valentin, age 2) are recorded on the 1767 census of Schwed in Household No. 24.
In 1788, Valentin Müller moved from Schwed to Stahl am Karaman where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Sk17.
Rosina Müller is recorded on the 1798 census of Urbach in Household No. Ur36.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Müller came from the German region of Riedesel. The 1767 census records that Anna Margaretha Müller came from the German village of Lauterbach.
- 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): 265.
- 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): Sk17, Ur36, Mv2693.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) : Origins and Destinations (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1316.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 146.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1904.
Brent Mai