Johann Philipp Göbel was born 12 April 1728 in Großen-Buseck. He married there on 17 July 1755 to Anna Elisabeth Albach, daughter of Christian Albach of Burkhardsfelden. She was baptized 27 June 1728.
They had 4 children, each baptized in Großen-Buseck: (1) Johannes, baptized 11 February 1750; (2) Johann Melchior, baptized 13 November 1756; (3) Johann Philipp, baptized 31 May 1762; and (4) Johann Heinrich, baptized 9 June 1765.
Philipp Göbel, a farmer, his wife Anna Elisabeth, and sons (Johann Melchior, age 10; Johannes, age 7) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 July 1766 aboard a Danish galliot named Der Engel Rafael (Archangel Raphael) under the command of Skipper Ehlert Kongsted.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Urbach on 3 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 42 with newborn son Johann Friedrich.
Melchior Göbel relocated to Rosenheim in 1788 where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Rm17. Johannes relocated to Reinhard where he is recorded on the 1798 census in Household No. Rh07.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Philipp Göbel came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- 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): 447.
- 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): Rh07, Rm17, Mv2902.
- Müller, Hanno. Großen-Busecker Familienbuch (Fernwald-Steinbach, 1999).
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3493.
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