Müller (Anton)

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Müller (Anton)
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Johann Georg Müller was born in 1721 in Hilsenhain, southeast of Weinheim. He married on 12 February 1752 in Heiligkreuzsteinach to Anna Elisabeth Münch. She had been born in 1720 in Rippenweier. The immigrated to Denmark (Schleswig-Holstein) in 1761.

They immigrated to Russia in 1763, settling in the colony of Anton on 7 September 1764 along with their daughters: Anna Katharina, Eva Katharina, and Elisabeth. They are recorded on the 1767 census of Anton in Household No. 8.

There do not appear to be any male descendants of this family.

Sources: 

- Eichhorn, Alexander, Jacob & Mary Eichhorn. The Immigration of German Colonists to Denmark and Their Subsequent Emigration to Russia in the Years 1759-1766 (Deiningen, Germany: Drukerei und Verlag Steinmeier GmbH & Co. Kg, 2012): 531.
- Lang, Gerhard. German Colonists of Denmark on the Volga.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 54.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Gerhard Lang

Pre-Volga Origin

Volga Colonies