Elisabeth Vogel and Andreas Müller were married on 10 October 1765 in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Andreas Müller, a weaver (Weber), his wife Elisabeth [née Vogel], and son Johannes Mattias (age 1) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 34. They had settled there on 27 August 1766.
Elisabeth née Vogel (widow Müller) (age 35), her husband Lambert Gors (age 29), and her sons (Mattias Müller, age 7½; Christian Müller, age 6) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 38 along with a note that Christian Müller died in 1777. [See Müller and Gors Families.]
The 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] records that Elisabeth née Vogel came from the German village of Gross Umstadt in the Hessen-Darmstadt region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Vogel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 38).
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #24.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 283.
Brent Mai