Johann Göbel and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Johann Gebel and his wife Anna are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Anna died en route.
Johannes Göbel, a stocking maker (Strumpfwirker), his [new] wife Margaretha, and [step-]son Anton [surname not recorded] (age 2) are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 15 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Göbel came from the German village of Roth.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Göbel family among the Volga German colonies.
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- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 843.
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- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6840, #6820.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4198-4199.
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