Hans Georg Mühlhausen, a farmer, his wife Maria Barbara, and sons (Johann Christoph, age 18; Johann Georg, age 13; Heinrich, age 6¼; Johann Wilhelm, age 2¾) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 31 May 1766 aboard a galliot named Die Vergoldete Weintraube (The Gilded Grape) under the command of Skipper Joachim Hermann Andersen.
Johann Georg Mühlhaus, his [new] wife Rosina, and children by his first wife (Johann Christoph, age 19; Johann Georg, age 15; Heinrich, 7) are recorded on the 1767 census of Keller in Household No. 54. They had settled in Keller on 12 May 1767.
Following the destruction of the colony of Keller, the Mühlhaus family relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Widow Rosina Mühlhausen (age 64) is recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk42 as the "mother-in-law" of Widow Katharina Thomas whose deceased husband is recorded as Johannes Schipper. [See Schipper Family.]
The widow and children of Christoph Mühlhaus are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk35.
Mattias Mühlhausen [sic], son of Christoph Mühlhaus, is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 33.
Johannes Mühlhaus, son of Mattias Mühlhaus, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 13.
Johannes Mühlhaus and his family are recorded on the 1850 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 28.
Johannes Mühlhaus and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 30.
Heinrich Mühlhausen [sic] and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. Nk27.
The death of Heinrich Mühlhausen [sic] in 1810 is recorded on the 1811 census of Neu-Kolonie in Household No. 25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Hans Georg Mühlhausen came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Mühlhaus came from the German village of Urlichstadt [?] in the Darmstadt region.
- 1811 Neu-Kolonie Census (Households No. 25, 33).
- 1834 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 13).
- 1850 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 28).
- 1857 Neu-Kolonie Census (Household No. 30).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 137.
- 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): Nk27, Nk35, Nk42, Nk43.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 353.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #815.
Brent Mai