Johannes Georg Müllecker, son of Johannes Balthasar & Anna Müllecker, married on 16 January 1730 in Göcklingen to Maria Eva Hoffmann from Göcklingen.
The baptisms of the following children born to Johannes Georg Müllecker & Maria Eva Hoffmann are recorded in the parish register of Göcklingen: (1) Johannes Jakob, baptized 4 October 1730; (2) Georg Michael, baptized 14 December 1731; (3) Maria Theresa, baptized 13 June 1733; (4) Maria Jakobina, born 27 February 1735, baptized 28 February 1735; (5) Philipp Jakob, baptized 7 January 1737; (6) [a] Johannes Peter, baptized 5 March 1739; (7) [b] Maria Margaretha, born & baptized 27 March 1742; (8) [c] Johannes, baptized 17 February 1745; and (9) Georg Peter, baptized 3 April 1748, died 19 December 1829 [in Gossersweiler].
Three of these children arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of Skipper Paul Adolph Drath. All three settled in the Volga German colony of Brabander on 19 August 1767.
[a] Peter Meliker [sic] and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Peter Mühlecker and his wife Magdalena are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 43.
The death of Peter Müllecker is recorded in the parish register of Brabander on 31 December 1797.
[b] [Maria] Margaretha Müllecker & Johann Georg Feckenbusch were married 20 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Hans Georg Feckenbusch, a farmer, and his wife Margaretha arrived in Oranienbaum
Johann Georg Felckenbusch [sic] and his wife Margretha are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They are recorded there on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 73. [See Feckenbusch Family.]
[c] Johannes Mileker [sic] & Catharina Hengst were married on 20 May 1766 in Roßlau.
Johan Meliker [sic] and his wife Catharina are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Johann Mühlecker and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Brabander in Household No. 45.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter & Johannes Müllecker came from the German region of Lothringen. The 1767 census records that they both came from the German village of Kicklingen [Göcklingen] in the Kurpfalz region.
Descendants of this family in North America today use the spelling of Molleker.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 746.
- 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): Bn02, Bn03, Bn30, Bn59.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #975, #976.
- Parish register of Göcklingen.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 224, 230.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5961a, #5963, #5968.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #6671-6672, 6682-6683, 7106-7107.
Brent Mai
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Heinrich Reichert
Entries from the parish register of Roßlau recording the marriages of Johannes Milecker to Catharina Hengst and Joh. Georg Feckenbusch to Margaretha Milecker.
Source: Heinrich Reichert.