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The Miller's Household at Linse, 1774 to 1801

In the spring of 1774 the Wesemanns moved to Linse, a village of Halle parish in the Brunswick district of Wickensen. On 6 March 1774 “Conrad Dempewulf, middle miller,” had a son baptized at Linse. On 5 June “the widow of Joh. Wilhelm von Campe, from Salzhemmendorf, now in the middle mill with her daughter,” stood godmother there. On 27 October the clerk wrote “Master Johann Heinrich Wäsemann, now leaseholder in the said middle mill”. The family almost certainly took the mill between 6 March and 5 June 1774. Franz Conrad Dempewulff, the miller they replaced, had been the Thran miller in 1768 and probably in 1763, and the middle miller since May 1771; the widow of Conrad Dempewulff died at Linse on 29 September 1803, aged 72. The Dempewulffs were possibly a milling family of the Weser district, but no record links them to the Wesemanns (see The German Mills).

The middle mill (Mittelmühle) belonged to the duke. It was probably the “lord’s mill” of a 1759 description of Linse, which carried the land toll on goods bound for the Weser, and the duke’s Chamber granted it to Johann Heinrich on hereditary rent (Erbenzins) in 1774. The printed description of the Duchy of 1803 says that “the Lenne drives 2 grinding mills, each with 1 grinding and 1 oil run, of which one is let on hereditary rent by the Chamber, the other a hereditary mill”. The mill on hereditary rent was probably the middle mill, the other the upper mill of the village. The history of all three wheels on the lower Lenne is told in the The German Mills section.

Johann Heinrich appears under several titles: hereditary-rent miller (Erbenzinsmüller) at Linse in 1775 to 1788, “the middle miller Heinrich Waßemann” in 1777, master miller (Müllermeister) at Linse in 1791, and master miller of the middle mill at his burial in 1801. They are one man: one mill, one wife and one set of children run through them without a break.

He spent much of his time at Linse in court with his neighbor downstream. From 1775 to 1788 he sued the Thran miller Deneke over a dam built too high. That file is the earliest to name a Wesemann at Linse, and it shows that he held his mill on hereditary rent. In 1791 Johann Friedrich Boerms, by then the Thran miller, sued him in turn over water overflowing, in a file that spells the village “Lünse”. These suits, and the later ones, are told in the The German Mills section.

Johann Heinrich and Christine had six children. The eldest was born at Salzhemmendorf and the other five at Linse, where they were entered in the Halle register.

Child	Birth	Death	Married
Johann Conrad Ludewig	17 January 1772, Salzhemmendorf; baptized 21 January	31 December 1816, Salzhemmendorf (probably); buried 4 January 1817	Dorothea Louise
Ernestine Charlotte	23 October 1774; baptized 27 October	29 April 1783, of smallpox, aged 8½; buried 4 May (probably)
Georg Ludewig	23 June 1777; baptized 26 June	29 December 1855, Linse	Justine Marie Küster, 1803
Ernst Heinrich	10 November 1780; baptized 13 November	20 April 1783, of smallpox, aged 2 years 23 weeks; buried 24 April
Johann Ernst	28 February 1785; baptized 4 March		Melusine Caroline Beckmann, 1808
Caroline Louise	6 January 1789; baptized 11 January	probably 1 March 1851, Heinade	Friedrich Wilhelm Brand, 1807; Johann Ernst Friedrich Seebaum, 1823

In the spring of 1783 smallpox came to the mill house. Ernst Heinrich died on 20 April, and nine days later Ernestine Charlotte died between midnight and one in the morning.

The godparents came from the mother’s side and from the district’s officials. Conrad Ludolph Stumpf, the district bailiff (Amtsvogt), stood for Georg Ludewig in 1777 and Ernst Heinrich in 1780, and his wife stood at a Brand baptism that August. Ernst Stumpf, a non-commissioned officer, stood for Johann Ernst in 1785. Both men were entered “of Buchhagen,” a village two kilometers east of Bodenwerder on the Lenne that belonged with fourteen others to the Lower Börde of the district of Wickensen until 1832, was parished to Kirchbrak rather than Bodenwerder because it was Brunswick territory while Bodenwerder was Calenberg, and had its own millrace, now dry. A district bailiff at the font twice says more about the miller’s standing than any other sponsor of these years. Ernestine Charlotte’s first godfather in 1774 was “Ludewig Rumpf, now steward of the noble estate at Buchhagen,” and in October 1788 “the steward’s wife Stumpf of Buchhagen” was a godmother at Linse. Whether Rumpf and Conrad Ludolph Stumpf were one man is not known. The second sponsor at Georg Ludewig’s baptism was “the wife of Jo. Heinr. Wasmann,” of the separate Wasmann family of Linse, which is not part of the milling line.

Three of the children carry forenames that no godparent bore: Ernestine in 1774, Georg in 1777 and Ernst in 1780. Such names often honored a grandparent. Among the Wesemann and Wasmann families of the district, Ernst appears in the Weesemann officials, in Ernst Wasmann, a farm boy in the district of Rotenkirchen in 1689, and among the Wasmanns of Halle parish at Linse in 1606 to 1611 and at Dohnsen in 1679 to 1681. The name may point toward the miller’s own family, but that is a theory, not a finding.

The surnames Wesemann and Brand stood together at a font a generation before the two families married. On 20 August 1777, at the baptism of a daughter of Jo. Wilhelm Brand and Dor. Marie Heinemeier of Kirchbrak, the godparents were “the middle miller Heinrich Waßemann,” the miller Johann Heinr. Brünig and the bailiff Stumpf’s wife. That Brand household belonged to Halle and Kirchbrak, not to the Brand farm at Linse that later married into the family. The miller stood at many fonts. He was a godfather at Halle on 5 November 1775 as “the miller Heinr. Wäsemann,” and Christine was probably the miller’s wife “in the middle mill” who was a godmother at Linse on 16 November 1776. On 4 June 1786 “the miller Wäsemann” was one of four godparents of Marie Louise, daughter of Johann Christoph Wasmann of Linse. At his own daughter Caroline Louise’s baptism in January 1789 the godparents were the innkeeper Settemeier and “Sporleder of Linse, his wife”. Probably he was the “miller Johann Heinrich Wesemann” who was first godfather on 19 September 1798 to Johann Heinrich Wilhelm, son of Heinrich Wilhelm Kramer of Linse, at Kemnade, and “the miller Wesemann from Linse” who stood at Halle on 15 November 1799.

Christine’s widowed mother lived out her life at the mill. Maria Eleonora Küster died there on 25 January 1785, aged 58, and was buried on the 28th. Her Salzhemmendorf kin stayed close: when Christine’s first Linse child was baptized in October 1774, one godmother was “Charlotte, wife of N. Albrecht, citizen of Salzhemmendorf”. She was probably the Charlotta Dorothea Küster baptized at Salzhemmendorf in 1738 who married an Albrecht there in 1762. That she was August Wilhelm Küster’s daughter, and so Christine’s aunt, is a theory: his household fits the Küster entries of the town’s index.

Christine died on 7 September 1791, aged 41 years and 3 months, of consumption. Fourteen months later, on 8 November 1792, the widower married again at Halle: “the widower Johann Heinrich Wesemann, master miller in the middle mill at Linse,” and “Regine Sophie Henrici, surviving widow of the late Johann Schielen, excise collector (Lizenteinnehmer) at Lauenförde”. The banns were read at Lauenförde, the widow’s home, on 21 and 28 October, for “the inhabitant and grinding miller at Linse … widower Johann Heinrich Wü[s]emann and the widow Regina Sophia Schiele, born Henrici”. Neither entry gives the parents, birthplace or age of either party. The Lauenförde banns are almost certainly for the same marriage.

On 25 September 1799, at the baptism of a daughter of the schoolmaster Justus Heinrich Eickhoff at Linse, one godmother was entered as “the miller Wesemann’s daughter” (the last word may also read “widow”), without a name.

In March 1800 the household lost a servant. Louise Wilhelmine Bergmüller, “the miller Wesemann’s maidservant,” born at Bodenwerder, died at Linse on 4 March 1800 of a stroke, aged 32 years and 1 month. She was probably the Catharina Louise Wilhelmina baptized at Bodenwerder on 8 February 1768, born the day before, daughter of Wilhelm Bergmüller and his wife Christina Elisabeth; her father was probably Christian Wilhelm Bergmüller, mill tenant at Bodenwerder, who was dead by July 1791. She was a miller’s daughter in service in another miller’s house.

Johann Heinrich Wesemann died at Linse on 22 December 1801 of a chest illness (Brustkrankheit), aged 65 by the register, entered as “master miller of the middle mill” (Mühlenmeister).

His widow outlived him by almost thirty years. The widow Wesemann who stood godmother at Linse in 1804 was probably Regine Sophie. She was probably also the “widow Wasmann, Regina born Henrici, widow of the late hereditary-rent miller Johann Heinrich Wasmann” who died at Linse in the evening of [4?] February 1830 of old age and frailty, aged 89 years, [9?] months and 25 days, and was buried quietly on 12 February. That age puts her birth about 1740, and her forename and maiden name agree with the marriage of 1792.

His estate was divided between his sons Georg Ludewig and Johann Ernst by a contract of 18 August 1818, with a supplement of 3 December 1819. The contract (Erbvertrag) itself has not been found. It is known only from a summary in a mortgage bond of 1822, which quotes Georg Ludewig on “my brother the miller Ernst Wesemann”. It is the only record of what Johann Heinrich left and to whom. Like the grant file of 1774, it could state where he came from.

A second man of the same forenames lived at Linse in these years and must be kept apart from the miller. Johann Heinrich Wasmann, of the separate Wasmann family, was a retired farmer (Leibzüchter) at Linse, born about 1729, who died there on 29 November 1805 aged 76. As a bachelor of Tuchtfeld, the surviving son of the late Harm Christoph Wasmann, he had married on 10 May 1759 at Linse Marie Sophie née Marahrens, widow of the half farmer Heinrich Harm Sagebiel. Their son Johann Georg Christian, born on 27 June 1764, died on 6 July 1785. His later wife was Ilse Margrete Hundertmark, who died at Linse on 24 June 1800 aged 77. The register keeps the two men apart by spelling as well as trade: the miller is Wesemann, the retired farmer Waßmann. The Linse clerk of the 1790s wrote the miller’s household Wesemann every time and every other household Waßmann, and a third man of the name, Johann Heinrich Wasmann, a musketeer of Halle, was named the father of an illegitimate son in 1798. Marie Sophie Marahrens returns later in this chapter as a possible ancestor of George’s mother.

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Halle Kirchenbuch “Taufen Beerdigungen 1766–1799” (churchRegister 390648, 286 images), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer; with the register’s own surname index at Bild 205. Transcriptions:); Bilder 101–102 (the baptisms of September 1785 – March 1786); Bild 104, no. 15 (1786); Bild 113, no. 27 (1788); Bild 117, no. 14 (15 March 1789); Bild 144, no. 12 (25 April 1793); Bild 156 (30 November 1794); Bild 174, no. 8 (12 March 1797); Bild 182, no. 16 (1798); Bild 196, no. 34 (25 September 1799); Bild 250, nos. 7 and 10 (the burials of 1783). Also: Bild 4, 12, 22, 35, 45, 55, 70, 81, 93 and 116 (the baptisms of the children of Johann Christoph Brand and Anne Catharina Voges, 1766–1789); Bild 75, no. 18 (1779), Bild 89, no. 25 (20 May 1782) and Bild 100, no. 20 (1785), the Sporleder baptisms; Bild 176 (10 July 1797); Bild 207, 215, 226, 238, 270 and 271 (the Brand burials of 1766, 1768, 1773, 1777 and 1792, with 1792 no. 37); Bild 222–223 (the Sagebiel and Marahrens burials of 1771–1772); Bild 232, no. 9 (the burial of Franz Heinr. Brand, 1775); the Sagebiel burials of 1768–1771 and baptisms of 1773–1774.
Halle Kirchenbuch “Taufen Beerdigungen 1800–1814” (04-03075, churchRegister 390649, 188 images) and “Trauungen 1800–1808” (04-03076, churchRegister 390650), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer. Also: Trauungen, Jg. 1804, Nr. 3 (Brand–Sporleder); Begrabene, Jg. 1803, Nr. 36 (Bild 167, written p. 310, the Brünig child) and Jg. 1800, Nr. 24 (Johanne Marie Brand); Begrabene, Jg. 1804, Nr. 27 (Bild 170, the Mittelmüller infant); Taufen, Jg. 1805, Nr. 21, Jg. 1809, Nrs. 16 and 17 (Bild 96, written p. 187), Jg. 1810, Nr. 36 (Bild 110), Jg. 1812, Nr. 20 and Jg. 1813, Nr. 36. The volume has no surname index of its own; images 185 to 188 run to an Ende marker. Also Begrabene, Jg. 1805, Bild 172, Nr. 18 (the Leibzüchter Johann Heinrich Waßmann, 29 November 1805, aged 76). Also: Trauungen 1800–1808, Bilder 3–20 (every entry), Bild 14, p. 22, entry 1 (the 1803 marriage of Ludewig Wesemann and Justine Marie Küster) and Bild 18, p. 31, entry 5 (the 1807 marriage of Friedrich Wilhelm Brand and Caroline Louise Wesemann); Taufen, Bild 87 (1808), Bild 109, no. 33 (8 August 1810) and Bild 143, no. 31 (20 November 1813). Also: Trauungen 1800–1808 (390650), 1804 no. 3; Begrabene, Bild 167, 1803 no. 35 (Georg Ludwig Sporleder); Taufen, Bild 100 (1810 nos. 1 and 2) and Bild 129 (1812 no. 20); the baptisms of August 1809 – 1814 (about Bild 94–152).
Olaf März, Fließende Übergänge: Stadt – Flecken – Dorf im Braunschweiger Weserdistrikt in der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts (Diss. phil., Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2016; DOI 10.15488/8737): p. 91 and note 983 (the toll in the Herren Mühle at Linse, 1759) and pp. 355–361 (the Tran and the Floto family).
Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv, Abteilung Wolfenbüttel, catalogue entries in Arcinsys Niedersachsen und Bremen: NLA WO, 50 Neu 2 Wick Nr. 47 (the grant of the Linse Mittelmühle, 1774) and NLA WO, 4 Alt 2 Wick Nr. 3805 (the lease file, 1770–1782). Catalogue level only; originals, not digitized.
G. Hassel and K. Bege, Geographisch-statistische Beschreibung der Fürstenthümer Wolfenbüttel und Blankenburg, vol. 2 (Braunschweig, 1803), pp. 308–311, Amt Wickensen: no. 26, Linse, and no. 31, the Thran. Read in the Google Books text layer.
NLA WO, 8 Alt Wick, Nr. 63 (1775–1788), Erbenzinsmüller Heinrich Wesemann of Linse v. Tran-Müller Deneke.
NLA WO, 7 Alt, Fb. 2 Va Nr. 2281 (1791), Boerms v. Johann Hr. Wesemann.
Salzhemmendorf Kirchenbuch 1750–1803 (churchRegister 200156), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer. Bild 94, pp. 558–559, the “Copulirte” lists of 1764–1770, with 1770 no. 5, the marriage of Johann Heinrich Wesemann “aus Grubenhagen” and Clara Christina Campen (18 November 1770); Bild 47, p. 466, 1767 no. 26, the mill hand Heinrich Weseman[n] as godfather; the baptisms of 1750 to September 1772 (Bilder 3–56), with the 1772 baptism of Johann Conrad Ludewig Wesemann and its godfather Ludewig Küster “aus Salz der Helden.” Also Bild 4, p. 380, 1750 no. 7 (the baptism of Clara Christina Maria, daughter of Johann Wilhelm von Campe and Maria Eleonora Küster); Bild 56 and Bilder 59–60 (the Küster entries of 1772–1775); Bild 90, p. 551 (the marriage of 13 April 1751); Bilder 93–95, pp. 558–560 (the marriage lists of 1764 to 1772, with the notes that no one was married in 1771 or 1772); Bilder 121, 124 and 127 (the Küster burials of 1761, 1763 and 1766); and Bild 133 (the burials of 1772, nos. 23 and 24). Also Bild 55 (1772 no. 1); Bilder 57–60 (the baptisms of 27 December 1772 – 4 May 1775, read entry by entry); Bilder 98–102 (the marriages of 1786–1802, with Bild 101, p. 572, the Alwes and Westermann marriage of 29 August 1798); Bild 169, p. 727 (burials of 1802, no. 14); and Bilder 211, 214, 215 and 216 (the baptisms of 1800–1802).
Salzhemmendorf Kirchenbuch 1799–1829 (churchRegister 200159) and Kirchenbuch 1820–1852 (churchRegister 200162), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer: 200159, Bild 9 (1800 no. 26, Sophie Charlotte Wesemann), Bild 14 (1802 no. 22, Dorothea Caroline), Bild 18 (1804 no. 11, Caroline Louise; 1804 no. 8, the Fricke baptism) and Bild 138 (burials, no. 18, “der Cämmerer Johann Conrad Ludwig Wesemann,” died 31 December [1816]); 200162, Bild 92, p. 93, no. 18 (the death of Conrad Wesemann’s widow, 14 November 1832, buried 18 November), Bild 98 (the marriage of 3 August 1817), Bild 103 (the marriage of 29 September 1822), Bild 108 (the marriage of 27 January 1828) and Bild 149 (the banns of 1840); with 200162, Bilder 91 and 94.
Bodenwerder Kirchenbuch 1749–1814 (churchRegister 390579), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer: Bild 38, 1768 baptism no. 3 (Catharina Louise Wilhelmina, daughter of Wilhelm Bergmüller); Bilder 250–251 (the Bergmüller marriages of 1790/1791 and 1792); Bild 274 (the marriage of 15 October 1807 of Wilhelmine Küster of Delligsen and Heinrich Christian Ludwig Brünig). Also Bilder 250–265 (the marriages of 1786–1800), Bilder 270–283 (the marriages of 1804–1813), Bild 276, 1808 no. 16 (the banns of Johann Ernst Wesemann and Caroline Melusine Bechmann [Beckmann?]) and Bild 406, 1812 no. 28 (the baptism of Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Ludewig Brünig, 13 August 1812).
Archion, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Bodenwerder, Kirchenbuch 1814–1842 (baptisms, marriages and burials), Bild 5 (entry 16, 1814): baptism of Heinrich Conrad Ludewig, son of Johann Ernst Wesemann and Melusine Caroline Beckmann. Bild 17 (entry 32, 1816): baptism of Dorette Wilhelmine Ernestine, daughter of the same couple. Bild 29 (entry 44, 1818): baptism of Johann Ernst Friedrich, illegitimate son of Caroline Louise Brandt geb. Wesemann, widow of Heinrich Wilhelm Brandt, father named as Heinrich Rittmeyer. Bild 36 (entry 18, 1820): baptism of Hanne Louise Caroline, illegitimate daughter of the same widow, father named as Johann Ernst Friedrich Seebaum. Bild 63 (entries 18–19, 1824): baptism of twins Heinrich August Ludewig and Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, sons of Johann Ernst Friedrich Seebaum and Caroline Louise geb. Wesemann. Also, in the same volume: Bild 198, pp. 402–403, no. 6 (the marriage of Johann Ernst Friedrich Seebaum and Caroline Louise Brandt née Wesemann, 24 November 1823) and Bilder 240–241, burials of 1814, no. 24 (Wilhelm Brand, Lohgerbermeister, 6 September 1814).
Heinade Kirchenbuch 1847–1865 (churchRegister 369566), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Archion online viewer: Bild 142, p. 329, 1851 no. 4 (the burial of Louise Caroline Seebaum née Wesemann).
“Buchhagen,” Wikipedia, the Niederbörde of Amt Wickensen, the Kirchbrak parish assignment and the village Mühlgraben.
Burchard and Mundhenke, Die Kopfsteuerbeschreibung der Fürstentümer Calenberg-Göttingen und Grubenhagen von 1689, 13 parts (Hannover and Hildesheim, 1940–1972): Teil 7 (the Ämter Brunstein, Westerhof and Harste with the town of Northeim; p. 10, the Hohnstedt mill and the Amtmann Weesemann, 1686; p. 19, Hinrich Weeseman, Kleinkötner and carpenter of Langenholtensen; Kurt Weseman, cavalryman, at Echte); Teil 11 (the Fürstentum Grubenhagen; p. 85, Hans Waßmann, Erbmüller at Schwiegershausen; p. 152, Herr N. Wesemann at Ebergötzen; the household of the Kommissarius N. Weesemann of Einbeck); Teil 12, contents (p. V), and the edition’s plan on archiv-vegelahn.de. With de.wikipedia, “Amt Westerhof” and “Burg Westerhof,” for the Amt’s Hildesheim period to 1523 and its later place in Calenberg-Göttingen. Also Teil 5 (Amt Lauenstein; p. 38, Jost von Campen, brewer, at Salzhemmendorf) and Teil 7, p. 12 (Franz Küster, Kleinkötner and miller at Vogelbeck).
Halle Kirchenbuch, Taufen 1591–1711 (churchRegister 390643), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer, read end to end for the Wasman families, with Bild 1–118 (1591–1639), Bild 191–227 (1673–1687) and Bild 320–343 (1707–1711); and Halle 390645, Bild 1–3, 88 and 92 (1712–1736). Also: Bild 46, entry 12 (9 April 1599, Tonnies Brand zu Linse); Bild 91–107 (1617 – April 1625); Bild 119–190 (1646 – August 1673), with Bild 133, 137, 142, 150, 154–155 (7 April 1661), 165, 170 and 175; Bild 227–244 (May 1687 – August 1691), with Bild 231, 236 and 241, p. 471 (11 November 1690); Bild 244–319 (July 1691 – January 1707), with Bild 311, p. 605 (14 March 1705).
Salzhemmendorf Namensregister 1657–1852 (churchRegister 200177), Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer: the K and von Campen rows, marriages (Bild 127), burials (Bilder 130–131) and baptisms. Index rows only. Also the R rows: Bild 185–189 and 190–191 (baptisms), 191–192 (marriages) and 192–193 (a second handwritten run): no Rickmann, Riekmann or Rittmeier row before 1801.
Halle Kirchenbuch “Trauungen 1736–1799” (churchRegister 390646), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer: Bild 49 (28 April 1763, Johann Christoph Brandt and Anne Catharina Vogts); Bild 61 (1766, Jo. Jürgen Brand, “Frant Brands filius”); Bild 75 (15 January 1770, Ilse Marie Brand, daughter of Frant Brand, Halbmeyer); Bild 149 (8 November 1792, Johann Heinrich Wesemann and Regine Sophie Henrici); Bild 158 (16 July 1795, Hanne Marie Caroline Brand). Transcriptions:) and Bild 114 (p. 228, entry 8), the 1769 and 1781 entries styling the late Heinrich Harm Wasmann Kleinköther and Erbschöffe; the 1769 entry (4 April, Georg Andreas Meier and Cath. Margrete née Borchers, widow of Hans Hermann Wasmann) re-read against the image 3 October 2026, where the styling reads Brinksitzer and the entry number 1. Also read 3 October 2026: Bild 3, no. 5 (6 June 1737, the musketeer Hans Heinrich Wasmann and Charlotte); Bild 27, no. 7 (10 May 1759, at Linse, the bachelor Johann Heinrich Wasmann of Tuchtfeld, son of the late Harm Christoph Wasmann, and Marie Sophie née Marahrens, widow of Heinrich Harm Sagebiel); Bild 49, no. 5 (14 June 1763, the former hussar Johann Heinrich Wasmann, son of the corporal Johann Heinrich Wasmann of Dohnsen, and Marie Catharine Wollenweber); Bild 82, no. 7 (22 November 1771, at Linse, Johann Conrad Wasmann of [B/D]remke, son of Johann Heinrich Wasmann of the same place, and Anne Louise Grote[h/b]enn). Also the marriages of 1753–1773, read for the Linse millers (the Schäfer marriage of September 1762; no Dempewulff marriage). Also Bilder 138–149 (the marriages of 28 October 1790 – 12 November 1792). Also: Bild 25, no. 2 (1759) and Bild 83, no. 4 (27 April 1772), the marriages of Jo. Heinr. Sagebiel; Bild 103, written p. 206, 1778 no. 4 (21 July 1778, Georg Ludewig Sporleder and Ilse Maria Sagebiel); the marriages read in their gaps, Bild 1–7 (1736–1740).
Lauenförde Kirchenbuch 1733–1802 (churchRegister 359404), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Uslar, Archion online viewer: Bild 188, 1792 entry 6, the banns of Johann Heinrich Wesemann and Regina Sophia Schiele née Henrici.
Linse Kirchenbuch 1815–1853 (signature 04-03142, churchRegister 390716) and Linse Kirchenbuch 1854–1875, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer. Full variant-name sweep of images 2–90 of the earlier volume, producing 29 hits and the bound-in W surname index at image 89; high-resolution reading of the 1832 marriage and baptism, the 1855, 1858 and 1861 death entries, and the 1857 baptism, 30–31 August 2026. Transcriptions:); the 1832 infant death (Verstorbene, Jg. 1832, Nr. 2); the 1838 stillbirth (Geborene, Jg. 1838, Nr. 10 and the unnumbered row following, Bild 27, written pp. 46–47); the 1846 marriage (Proclamierte und Copulierte, Jg. 1846, Nr. 1, Bild 58, written p. 149); the 1847 deaths (Verstorbene, Jg. 1847, Nrs. 1, 3 and 4); the 1852 death of Hanne Caroline Wilhelmine Waßemann geborene Brand (Verstorbene, Jg. 1852, Nr. 1, Bild 81, written p. 194); the volume’s own alphabetical surname index at written p. c. 197, Bild 83, B section read in full; and, in the 1854–1875 volume, the 1855, 1858 and 1861 deaths (Bild 46, 47 and 48, written pp. 215, 217 and 219) and the 1858 Leßing marriage (Trauungen, Jg. 1858, Nr. 3, Bild 35). Also, in Linse 390716: Bild 6 (1817 no. 3, the godparents of Dorothea Louise Friederike Wesemann), Bild 9 (1820 no. 2), Bild 10 (1822 no. 1), Bild 30 (1841 no. 6, the godmother Amalie Lüders née Küster) and Bilder 48–57 (the marriages of 1815–1841). Also, in Linse 390716: Bild 4–11, written pp. 2–15 (the baptisms of 1815 – January 1823, with 1815 no. 4, 1816 no. 2, 1818 nos. 2 and 4, 1821 no. 2 and the margin note of 5 September 1852 beside it, Bild 10, p. 13, and 1822 no. 2); Bild 14–19 (the godparents of 1827–1832); Bild 30 (1841 no. 8); Bild 33–46 (the baptisms of 1843–1853), with Bild 38 (1847 no. 3), 40 (1848 no. 2), 42 (1850 no. 1) and 46 (1852 no. 5); Bild 50–62 (the marriages of 1824, 1836, 1838, 1843, 1851 and 1853); Bild 64 (1817 burials, no. 1, written p. 161); Bild 66 (1822 no. 3 and 1823 no. 2, written p. 164); Bild 76–81 (the burials of 1847–1852, with the 1852 death re-read on enlarged crops). In Linse 390717: Bild 36 (1859 baptisms, no. 1); Bild 46–57 (the burials of 1854–1875, with 1855 and 1856 no. 2, Bild 46–47); the volume’s W index. Also, in Linse 390716: Bild 69 (the burials of 1830, no. 1, written p. 171). In Linse 390717: the marriage section of 1854–1875, read entry by entry.
NLA HA, Hann. 80 Hannover, Nr. 14011, read at item level, September 2026.
Archion, Halle Kirchenbuch 390647, p. 137/273, entry 16, 15 April 1761 baptism at Linse of Anne Dorothee Marlene, daughter of Heinrich Harm Wasmann and Catharine Margarete Borchers, with Hans Dietrich Borchers, pastor of Buchhagen, standing godfather. The 1768 burial of Heinrich Harm Wasmann is in Taufen Beerdigungen 1766–1799 (390648), Bild 215, entry 6, cited at [2]; the “413” beside it is the register’s own cross-reference number. Also 390647, Bild 169: baptism of Johann Georg Christian, son of Johann Heinrich Wasmann and Sophie Marahrens, born 27 June [1764], with the later margin note of his death on 6 July 1785. And the Halle Kirchenbuch to 1740 (390645), baptisms of 1735–1737 re-read 3 October 2026 for a Wasmann son: Bild 148, no. 6 (21 March 1737, Charlotte Wasmann’s illegitimate daughter Marie Sophie Margrete) and no. 9 (29 March 1737, Joh. Hennig Wißner, der Müller, at Linse, a daughter). Also 390647, the Linse entries of 1753–1765 naming the Mittelmüller Rudolph Dempewulff, the miller Schäfer and, at Bild 160 (5 July 1763), “der Müller von der Thran, Conrad Dempewulff.” Also, in 390647: Bild 46, no. 22 (1741) and Bild 53, no. 30 (27 October 1743), sons of Franz Heinrich Brand; Bild 92, written p. 98, 1753 no. 18 (13 May 1753); Bild 96, 1754 no. 34 (Wilhelmina Sophia Sagebiel); Bild 167, no. 11 (1764); the baptisms of 1751–1757 and the burials of 1755 – May 1759, with Bild 227 (1757 no. 60); the burials of 1742–1750, Bild 192–206, with Bild 204, p. 237, 1749 no. 24, and Bild 206, 1751 no. 5; the confirmation lists of 1745 and 1755.