Nikolaus Müller, a farmer, his wife Anna, and children (Eva, age 26; Anna, age 23; Anna, age 18; and Eva, age 3½) 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.
Nicolas Müller, his wife Anna Maria, and daughters (Eva Catrina, age 26; Anna Elisabeth, age 18; Eva Elisabeth, age 4) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna Maria and Eva Catrina died en route.
It is not known in which colony this Müller family settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Müller came from the German region of Isenburg.
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): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 461.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3600.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2396-2400.
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