Peter Göbel [sic], a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughters (Christina, age 17½; Christina [again], age 11; Agnetha, age 6; Dorothea, age 2½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a galliot named Kronshlot under the command of Skipper Ivan Kunakovskii.
Christina Kiwel (age 17) and her sisters (Christina [again], age 11; Margaretha, age 8; Dorothea, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Stahl am Karaman in Household No. 40 along with their stepfather Mchael Schipper. [See Schipper Family.]
Dorothea Friebus née Kiwel from Stahl am Karaman and her family are recorded on the 1798 census of Fischer in Household No. Fs16.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Peter Göbel [sic] came from the German region of Nassau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Kiwel family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 394.
- 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): Fs16.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 201.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3022.
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