Müller (Dönhof-1)
Andreas Müller, son of Johann Heinrich Müller, married in Nieder-Seemen on 27 June 1752 to Amalia Scheller, daughter of Johann & Gertrude Scheller. [See Scheller Family.]
Amalia had been born 13 November 1726 and baptized 15 November 1726 in Nieder-Seemen.
Andreas Müller & Amalia Scheller had three children, each born and baptized in Nieder-Seemen: (1) Anna Maria, born 22 April 1753, baptized 23 April 1753; (2) Johann Caspar, born & baptized 13 November 1754; and (3) Johann Heinrich, born 13 March 1762, baptized 14 March 1762.
Andreas Müller, a farmer, his wife Amalia, and children (Anna, age 16; Johann Kaspar, age 12; Heinrich, age 4) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Mathias under the command of Skipper David Wollert.
Andreas Müller, his wife Amalia, and children (Anna Maria, age 16; Johann Kaspar, age 15; Johann Heinrich, age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Dönhof in Household No. 57. They had settled there on 18 June 1767.
Andreas Müller and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Dönhof in Household No. 11.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Müller came from the German region of Stolberg while the 1767 census records that he came from the German region of Riedesel.
- 1775 Dönhof Census (Household No. 11).
- 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): Dh004, Dh050, Dh051.
- Parish register of Nieder-Seemen.
- Parish register of Ober-Seemen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1870.
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