Friedrich Stieglitz, a baker (Bäcker), his wife Maria Sophia, and [step-]son Daniel [sic] [Müller] arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 August 1766 aboard the ship named Nordstern (North Star) under the command of Skipper Detlev Behling.
Fridrich Stigelitz, his wife Maria Sophia, and son Johann Gottfried [sic] (age 15) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Friedrich Müller (age 13) is recorded on the 1767 census of Lauwe in Household No. 51 along with his stepfather Friedrich Stieglitz. A note accompanying the census records that Friedrich's father had fled ("Vater ist geflohen"). They had settled in Lauwe on 19 August 1767 and his unnamed mother died there on 9 November 1767.
Neither the Oranienbaum passenger list nor the 1767 census record from where Friedrich Müller came.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 663.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 48.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5269 (p.338).
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2099-2101.
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