Jonas Müller & Anna Christina Kern were married on 25 August 1766 in Mr. Suhl's house in Lübeck.
Martin Müller and his wife Elisabeth along with Jonas Müller and his wife Christina and Johann Adam Müller arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 August 1766 aboard the ship Der Junge Heinrich under the command of Skipper Heinrich Niemann.
Widower Martin Müller, a farmer, and his son Johann [Adam] (age 20) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household No. 36 along with a note that they settled in the Volga German colony of Schaffhausen in 1768.
The above mentioned Jonas Müller, a farmer, his wife Christina, and daughter Christina (age 5-days) are recorded on the appendix to the 1767 census of Kaneau in Household no. 37. Jonas is assumed to be another son of Martin Müller.
The 1767 census records that both Martin and Jonas Müller came from the German village of Ebergötzen.
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): 35.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 884, 885.
- 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): #213.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 270.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #7217, #7218.
Brent Mai