Johann Gebel from Petersroth & Anna Magdalena Kraus from Spielberg were married on 9 Aprl 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Johann[es] Göbel, a farmer, and his wife Magdalena arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Messer on 18 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 77 along with a son Johannes (age 1).
In 1796, Johann Heinrich Göbel moved from Messer to Degott.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Johann[es] Göbel came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 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): Ms26.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #506.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 150.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #1802.
Brent Mai
Pre-Volga Origin
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