Scheibel (Norka)*
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 10 August 1766 aboard the Russian pink Vologda 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.
- 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 records 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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