Müller (Kratzke-1)*
Spelling Variations:
Müller (Kratzke-1)*
Миллеръ (Kratzke-1)*
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Philipp Müller, a carpenter (Tischler), his wife Katharina, and daughters (Katharina, age 16; Karlina Dorothea, age 12; Dorothea Margaretha, age 10; and Elisabeth, age 8) settled in the Volga German colony of Kratzke on 7 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 34.
The 1767 census records Philipp Müller came from Wiesbaden in Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.
Sources:
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kr07.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 457.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai