Müller (Wittmann)
Spelling Variations:
Müller (Wittmann)
Миллеръ (Wittmann)
Settled in the Following Colonies:
Pre-Volga Origin:
Discussion & Documentation:
Johann Heinrich Müller, a tailor (Schneider), and his wife Elisabeth are recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits appended to the 1767 census along with a note that they settled in the colony of Wittmann in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Müller came from the German village of Kerzenheim.
Sources:
- 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): Wm42.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 370.
Contributor(s) to this page:
Brent Mai