Gottfried Melchior Scheibel married Anna Elisabeth Wentzel. The baptisms of two of their daughters are recorded on the parish register of Niedermittlau: (1) Catharina Elisabeth Scheibel, baptized 6 November 1735; and (2) Anna Elisabetha, born 2 February 1739, baptized 8 February 1739.
Catharina Elisabeth Scheibel married on 9 January 1766 in Niedermittlau to Johann Peter Göbel, son of Sebastian Göbel & Anna Elisabeth Meyer. They immigrated to Russia and settled in the colony of Norka. [See Göbel Family.]
Anna Elisabetha Scheibel married on 4 April 1766 in Büdingen to Johann Georg Ruppel, son of Heinrich & Anna Catharina Ruppel. They immigrated to Russia and settled in the colony of Norka. [See Ruppel Family.]
Catharina Scheibel (age 36) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 28 July 1766 aboard a Russian pink named Vologda [an historic Russian city] under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Bartenyev along with her sister [Anna] Elisabeth Ruppel née Scheibel and brother-in-law Johann Georg Ruppel.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Scheibel family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 613.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #476.
- Parish register of Niedermittlau.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 241, 252.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4895, #4907.
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