Konrad Ebel [sic], a farmer, his wife Rosina, and servant Eva Hoffmann (age 22) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin. [See Hoffmann Family.]
Konrad Göbel, a craftsman (Handwerker), his wife Rosina, and orphan Christina Hein (age 12½; daughter of the deceased Johann Georg Hein) settled in the Volga German colony of Göbel on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 60.
It is after Konrad Göbel that the colony of Göbel took its name.
Widower Konrad Göbel and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Göbel in Household No. Gb06.
Lorenz Göbel, son of Konrad Göbel, and his family are recorded on the 1834 census of Göbel in Household No. 8.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Göbel came from the German region of Franken (Franconia). The 1767 census records that Konrad Göbel came from the German village of Schwarzach in the Franconia region.
- 1834 Göbel Census (Household No. 8).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 100.
- 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): Gb06.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 54.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #486.
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