Asmus Göbel, a farmer, his wife Maria Dorothea, and children (Johann Heinrich, age 19; Maria Elisabeth, age 17; Christina Elisabeth, age 16; Susanna Katharina, age 14; Katharina Christina, age 11; Johann Konrad, age 8; Johann Philipp, age 1) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 June 1766 aboard the ship named Die Neue Fortuna (The New Fortune) under the command of Skipper Ahrens Steingraber.
Asmus Gebel [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Warenburg on 12 May 1767. Asmus Göbel died and his widow remarried to Friedrich Wilhelm Koch. They and the surviving younger Göbel children are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 51. Oldest son, Johann Heinrich, is recorded on the 1767 census of Warenburg in Household No. 42 along with his wife Anna Dorothea.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Asmus Göbel came from the German region of Usingen while the 1767 census records that Johann Heinrich Göbel came from the German region of Nassau.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 274.
- 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): Wr004, Wr022, Wr024, Wr072, Wr086.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 328, 329.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1992.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1761.
Brent Mai