According to information Margaretha and her husband, Mr. Fleischmann began their journey across the ocean from the Palatinate of Germany. They had a son, and daughter with them. Mr. Fleischmann did not survive the journey to America. Research shows Margaretha to be born Achenbach. She, lastly, married Kirschner in Pennsylvania, where they are understood to have alterred the surname, Kirschner to Kershner.