Was(s)e(n)müller
Johann Peter Wasenmüller was born 4 August 1741 in Kirch-Beerfurth, Hessen, to Johann Philipp Wasenmüller (21 July 1712 - 17 March 1771) & Eva Keil (24 October 1716 - 11 January 1770). He married 19 April 1766 in Büdingen to Elisabeth Margaretha Weinheimer.
Johann [Peter] Wassenmüller and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 21 July 1766 aboard a koff named Alette under the command of Skipper Wybe Hendricks.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Shcherbakovka on 18 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Wassenmüller was a farmer from the German region of Löwenstein.
The 1767 census records that Johann Peter Wassenmüller was a cabinet maker (Tischler) from the German village of Kirchberg.
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- Stammtafeln südhessischer Familien, vol. 3 (SeeheimJugenheim, 1989): 81.
- Wolf, Heiner. Familienbuch Reichelsheim: 1643-1875, Band 1 (2018): 469.
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