Georg Steininger, a tailor, his wife Maria, and children (Joseph, age 16¼; Ferdinand, age 11, Maria, age ½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 24 July 1766 aboard a barque named Georg under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair. [Subsequent documents record that Ferdinand is actually a stepson with the surname of Müller. Joseph is also presumed to also be a stepson with the surname of Müller.]
There is a Georg Steininger and his wife Barbara who are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767. However, the children (including Ferdinand Müller) are not recorded with them.
Ferdinand Müller (age 12) is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Paulskaya in Household No. 109 along with his stepfather Johann Georg Steininger.
Ferdinand Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Wittmann in Household No. Wm42.
The 1767 census does not record from where Ferdinand Müller came.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- 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): Wm42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 372.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #4760.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #7013-7014.
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