Johann Martin Müller was born 19 March 1746 in Bingenheim. His brother Lorenz Müller was born 29 November 1742 in Bingenheim. They were both sons of Johann Eberhard Müller and Elisabeth Catharina Walter.
Martin Müller, a single farmer, and his brother Lorenz arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Lorenz appears to have died prior to arrival in Frank.
Martin Müller and his wife settled in the Volga German colony of Frank in 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.
In 1792, Martin Müller and his family moved from Frank to Dreispitz.
Martin Müller and his daughters and their families are recorded on the 1798 census of Dreispitz in Dr42.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Martin Müller came from the German region of Darmstadt.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Müller family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 102.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Dr42, Mv0634.
- Kötting, Rainer. Ortsfamilienbuch Bingenheim (Online)
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis; 1999): 423.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #502.
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