Müller (Grimm-1)
Widower Konrad Müller, a farmer, and his daughters (Katharina, age 20; Margaretha, age 16; Maria, age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard the pink Lev under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
He remarried and settled in the Volga German colony of Grimm where the combined families are recorded on the 1767 census in Household No. 43.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Müller was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Konrad and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 14.
Widower Konrad Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Grimm in Household No. Gm117.
Maria Agnessa Müller, widow of Peter Müller (son of Konrad Müller), and her family are recorded on the 1834 census of Grimm in Household No. 192.
Heinrich Müller, son of Peter Müller, and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Grimm in Household No. 217 along with a note that his son Heinrich Müller and his family relocated to the daughter colony of Erlenbach in 1852.
Heinrich Müller from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Erlenbach in Household No. 50.
Both documents record that Konrad Müller came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 14).
- 1834 Grimm Census (Household No. 192).
- 1850 Grimm Census (Household No. 211).
- 1857 Erlenbach Census (Household No. 50).
- 1857 Grimm Census (Household No. 217).
- 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): Gm117.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 78.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2372.
Brent Mai