Christian Müller, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Frau Diederika (Lady Diederika) under the command of Skipper Johann Joachim Lunau.
Johann Christian Müller, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Schwab on 12 September 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42.
Adam Müller is recorded on the 1798 census of Schwab in Household No. Sb45 with a note that he is working in Dreispitz.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Müller came from the German region of Erbach. The 1767 census records that Johann Christian Müller came from the German village of Eschau.
- 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): 762.
- 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): Sb45.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 136.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6097.
Brent Mai