This entry should make a lot of people happy! Thank you so much Gert for all your kind help. This is exactly what sharing and discussing is all about. This week has been exciting and very eventful, thanks to all the participation going on. Let's not stop here. Jean Hans Georg GOBEL, of "Hofheim in the Austrian territories" [Hofheim im Oesterreichischen], citizen, vassal of the bishop of Speyer, by bad luck overloaded with debts (wife and children, free of vassalage), had property of 160 florins, was manumitted to go to his relatives in PA. [zu Verwandten in Pennsylvanien], 24 Apr 1733. Arrived at Philadelphia on the Ship HOPE, 28 Aug 1733. In the ship list the name is spelled "GOBEL, GABEL, & GOBL" The father's age is given as 40, the wife Barbara 38, and five children are listed (Antoni 12, Anna Maria 10, Magdalena 8, Jerg Adam 5, and Hans Jerg 3 1/2. A letter to the Editor from Dr. Fritz Braun, Director, Heimatstelle Pfalz, Kaiserslauter, dated 24 Feb 1970, furnishes additional data on this family. The town of origin is now Hoffenheim near Sinsheim in Baden. From the church register of Hoffenheim it appears that there were eleven children in all: Antonius, b. 24 Aug 1717, Carl Antony, b. 21 Oct 1718, died 26 Aug 1720, Maria Elisabetha, b. 3 Sep 1720, d. 2 Oct 1720., Anna Maria, b. 14 Aug 1721, Georg Balthasar, b. 3 Mar 1723, d. 23 Aug 1724, Maria Magdalena, b. 1 Jan 1725, Anna Margaretha, b. 23 Mar 1726, d. 28 Feb 1728, Georg Adam, b. 13 Apr 1727, Hanss Georg, b. 12 Sep 1728, Anna Catharina b. 28 Feb 1730, d. 24 Feb 1733, Maria Dorothea, b. 13 Apr 1732. That takes care of the Emigrant books that I have. Gert