Johann Nikolaus Aumüller, a papermaker (Papiermacher), his wife Katharina, and daughter Anna (age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Nicolaus Aumüller, his wife Catharina, and daughters (Anna Maria, age 7; Eva Carolina, born en route) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Eva Carolina also died en route.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Ober-Monjou on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 26.
In 1790, Moritz Aumüller, presumed son of Nikolaus Aumüller, moved from Orlovskaya to Ober-Monjou.
Moritz Aumüller is recorded on the 1798 census of Ober-Monjou in Household No. Om38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list came from the German region of Mainz. The 1767 census records that Johann Nikolaus Aumüller came from the German village of Starkstadt in the Mainz region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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Brent Mai