Nikolaus Müller, son of Nicolaus Müller (17 November 1711 - 5 June 1758) & Anna Margaretha Heun (9 November 1714 - 28 February 1782), was born 31 January 1740 in Kaulstoß.
Nikolaus Müller, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a barque named Fortitudo (Fortitude) under the command of Skipper John Scott.
Nikolaus Müller, a farmer, his wife Eva Katharina, [step?-]daughter Elisabeth (age 5), and wife's sister Anna Elisabeth [surname not recorded] (age 17) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stephan in Household No. 2. They had arrived in Stephan on 24 August 1767.
Nikolaus Müller and his family (sons: [a] Johann Franz, age 29; Johannes, age 26; [b] Johann Adam, age 22; [c] Johann Christian, age 18; [d] Johann Georg, age 16) are recorded on the 1798 census of Stephan in Household No. Sp24.
[a] The death of Franz Müller in 1831 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 38.
[b] The death of Johann Adam Müller in 1830 is recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 56.
[c] Christian Müller and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 40.
Christian Müller from Stephan and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Gnadentau.
[d] Johann Georg Müller is recorded on the 1834 census of Stephan in Household No. 38 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Balzer. The 1834 census of Balzer (Household No. 167) records that Johann Georg Müller arrived in Balzer from Stephan in 1821. [The marriage of Johann Georg Müller, son of the deceased Nikolaus Müller from Stephan, to Sophia Jackel, widow of Nikolaus Schäfer, is recorded in the parish register of Balzer on 21 April 1818 indicating that he probably moved there in 1818 rather than 1821.]
The Facius List records that Nikolaus Müller came from the German village of Burger. The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Müller came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Nikolaus Müller came from the German village of Engelrod.
- 1834 Balzer Census (Household No. 167).
- 1834 Stephan Census (Households No. 38, 40, 56).
- 1850 Stephan Census (Household No. 58).
- 1857 Gnadentau Census.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 476.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- 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): Sp24.
- Parish register of Kaulstoß.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 221.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3718.
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