Sailing Snow/Ship named the Thane of Fife out of (home port) Aberdeen, Scotland

Sailing Snow (a type of ship) named the Thane of Fife
out of (home port) Aberdeen, Scotland
Voyage in 1741 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William Weems, Master
Embarked Palatine "passengers/freights" in Amsterdam, Holland
Seeking information about villages of origin in Europe for the passengers on the ship … especially Johan Adam (A) Kircher and those standing and registered immediately before and after him on this ship list. See list below.

Research note: The English who governed colonial Pennsylvania generally called all German speaking immigrants Palatines in these early ship lists even though many of these immigrants did not actually originate from the Palatinate. Many came from other German principalities such as Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hesse. Others were German speaking Swiss and French Huguenots. Thus, even though a ship list declared the passengers as Palatines one should not assume that all of them came from the Palatinate. Many did not. Also, even though the lists may state they were imported from a port in Holland one should not surmise these people were born in Holland. The ports of Holland were the embarkation point for many German speaking immigrants who traveled down the Rhine River from the German speaking principalities to emigrate to Pennsylvania and other English colonies in the New World. Often friends and relatives from the same village traveled to the New World together. Thus people registered on the arrival lists standing next to each other in line during the registration process in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, possibly could be related or friends from the same village of origin.

Names, signature marks if not literate, and ages of "palatines" imported as "passengers/freights" on the Thane of Fife:

Gabriel Jung (52), Johann Nickel Bolander (36), Jacob Furtine (20), Johan Adam (A) Kircher (37), George (HK) Creim (30), Carl Grim (22), Adam (A) Grim (25), Johannes (X) Boss (18), Mattias (O) Kolb (26), Vallentin (O) Esman (19), Vallentin Winterstein (40), Chas Ludwig (+) Essig (22), John Henry (+) Bob (30), Anthony (X) Shneyder (17), Peter (X) Seinier (28), Johan Sebastian Hub (37), Henrich Whiteman (37), Hans Adam Whiteman (16), Lenhart (O) Zarburger (50), John Nicklas (X) Ketch (27), John Georg (X) Weyman aka Jerrie Wightman (25)

Typical sailing ship known as a Snow. The Thane of Fife would have looked similar to this.

Pennsylvania German Pioneers - The Original List of Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia (3 Volume Set)
by Strassburger & Hinke. (Ship Lists of 18th Century Arrivals Including Signatures for Port of Philadelphia PA.)

Palatines to America Home Page.
An Organization Focused on Germanic Migration to America.

Gabriel Jung (Gabriel Young), age 52.
European Records: of Winterbach, Rheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate).
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Johan Nickel Bolander (Nicholas Bolander), age 36.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Born 1706 in Germany. Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife. Married to an Anna Maria. Died 18 Jul 1761 in Greenwhich Twsp, Berks Co PA.

Jacob Furtine (Jean Jacob aka Jacob Fortineux), age 20.
European Records: Born 2 Nov 1720 in Otterberg (near Kaiserlautern), Rheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate), Germany.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife. Married 22 Apr 1749 to Anna Marie Kinger. Died 21 Apr 1761 in Lancaster PA.

Johan Adam (A) Kircher (Adam Kerchner/Kirchner), age 37.
European Records: None found to date. I currently have no good or solid targets as to his village of origin. I do have some theories and suggestions based on traditional genealogy and genetic genealogy hints. One is that he may have been from near the villages of Grossbundenbach, Wallhalben, and Saalstadt which are located southwest of Kaiserslautern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Another area suggested is the east bank region of the Rhein River in the area of Karlsruhe. Another suggested theory is that he may be related to one of the Kircher/Kirchner families of the villages of Helfenberg, Auenstein, and Beilstein, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. But YDNA testing has found no matches in that area to-date. YDNA testing has also ruled out a relationship to the Kerchner family of Freudensberg (near Wertheim), Baden, on the Main River. Macro analysis of my YDNA haplotype indicates a low-resoltuion gross match in an anonymous European YDNA database to an unnamed male line in the city of Freiburg which is near the Rhine River in southwest Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. As can be seen from these leads, all point to southwest Germany which confirms the family oral history that our immigrant was a “Palatine” and part of the Great Palatine emigration to Pennsylvania.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife. Married circa 1749 to an Anna Barbara _____. Adam died 26 Aug 1768 "on old Seiler's place" in Hereford Township, Berks County PA. Religion: Protestant/Evangelisch - German Reformed. He was not literate. Made his mark on legal documents with the capital letter "A". He had one known son named Frederick Kerchner, born in 1750 in Pennsylvania, from whom I descend.
For more details about what I know about this immigrant see: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page 18^th Century German Naming Customs

George (HK) Creim (George Krim/Grim), age 30.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Carl Grim (Carl maybe aka Charles Krim/Grim), age 22.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Adam (A) Grim (Adam Krim/Grim), age 25.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Johannes Boss (Johannes aka John Boss/Boos), age 18.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Mattias (O) Kolb (Mathias Kolb), age 26.
European Records: of Wallhalden, Saalstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate).
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Valentine (O) Esman (Valentine maybe aka Felty Nassman/Neassman), age 19.
European Records: of Saalstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate).
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Vallentin Wintersteen (Valentine maybe aka Felty Wintersteen), age 40.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Ludwig (+) Essig (maybe aka Louis/Lewis Essig), age 22.
European Records: Possibly of Massenbach.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

John Henry (+) Bob (Henry Bopp/Pape), age 30.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Anthony (X) Snyder, age 17.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Peter (X) Seiner (Peter Sinor?/Snyder?), age 28.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

John Sebastian Hub (Sebastian Hub/Hueb), age 37.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Lenhart (O) Zarburger, age 50.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

John Nicklas (X) Ketch (Nicholas Ketch), age 27.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

John Georg (X) Weyman (George Whiteman), age 25.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Henrich Whiteman (Henry Whiteman), age 37.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Hans Adam Whiteman (Adam Whiteman), age 16.
European Records: None found to date.
American Records: Arrived in Philadelphia PA 7 Nov 1741 on ship Thane of Fife.

Note: Johan Adam (A) Kircher (sic) listed in the above ship list has been conclusively proven via traditional research and using Y chromosome DNA testing to be related on the direct male line to the J. George Kirchner and Friederich Kirchmer (sic) who were traveling together and were imported to Pennsylvania on the ship Brothers in 1751. That ship Brothers arrived at Philadelphia on 16 Sep 1751.

See this link for more details about this two Kirchners and the ship list for the 1751 voyage of the ship Brothers.

Ship Brothers 1751 Voyage Ship Passenger List

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