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Johann Heinrich Wesemann: Salzhemmendorf and Where He Came From

Salzhemmendorf and the Kampen family

The first trace of Johann Heinrich Wesemann is at Salzhemmendorf, a small town in the Hanoverian district of Lauenstein. About the first days of October 1767 “the mill hand Heinrich Weseman[n]” stood godfather there, two entries after a child of the town’s miller, Johann Ludewig Küster, who had held the Salzhemmendorf mill since 1764. The mill hand was probably the future miller of Linse, then working at that mill.

On 18 November 1770 (the day is probable) the Salzhemmendorf clerk entered the marriage of “Johann Heinrich Wesemann from Grubenhagen, and Clara Christi[ne] … Campen from Salzhem[mendorf]”. The register is a bare list and names no parents and no trades. That the groom was the Linse miller is probable. That the bride was the miller’s wife is almost certain, because her mother’s burial at Linse in 1785 says she died at the middle mill, “where her daughter is married to the miller Wäsemann”. Their first son, Johann Conrad Ludewig, was born at Salzhemmendorf in January 1772. Where the young family lived for the next two years is not known.

The bride is called Christine Kampen in this book, the name the Linse clerks used. She was born at Salzhemmendorf on 1 June 1750, at eleven at night, and baptized on 5 June as “a young daughter of Johann Wilhelm von Campe and Maria Eleonora Küster,” who had married there on 28 August 1749. One of her godmothers was her grandmother, “Emerentia Tel[g]mann,” probably her mother’s mother, Clara Emerentia née Telgmann. The others were the wife of Balthasar Schrader and a widow from [Oelkassen?], a village on the Lenne above Kirchbrak; that widow was possibly her father’s sister or Schrader’s widowed sister. Her age at her burial in 1791 matches this baptism.

Where he came from

His marriage entry is the only record that says where Johann Heinrich came from, and it gives one word: Grubenhagen. In 1770 that was the name of a principality of the Electorate of Hannover, and also of the castle that gave the principality its name. The head-tax census of 1689 counts the principality in a volume of its own, with the districts of Elbingerode, Herzberg, Katlenburg, Osterode, Radolfshausen, Rotenkirchen, Salzderhelden and Scharzfeld and the towns of Einbeck and Osterode. The castle, Burg Grubenhagen, stands in the district of Rotenkirchen above the villages of Rotenkirchen and Dassensen.

Calenberg-Göttingen and Grubenhagen were ruled together from Hannover after 1665, but Grubenhagen kept its name as a region, and a place on its border was not necessarily inside it. The district of Westerhof, with Echte, Oldershausen, Düderode, Sebexen, Marke and Eboldshausen, belonged to Hildesheim until 1523. After that it was part of Calenberg-Göttingen, and probably never part of Grubenhagen. Northeim and the districts of Brunstein and Harste, with Elvershausen, were probably Calenberg-Göttingen as well. Whether a clerk of 1770 could still have called a man from Echte “from Grubenhagen” is possible and cannot be ruled out.

Other places near the principality lay outside it too. Moringen, Hardegsen and Fredelsloh were Calenberg-Göttingen, and Greene, Kreiensen, Delligsen and Voldagsen belonged to Brunswick; Greene and Kreiensen are missing from the 1689 census of the principality. The villages under the castle, Dassensen, Rotenkirchen and Wellersen, have no church registers before 1790. A village of Kirch Grubenhagen in Mecklenburg is unlikely, since its baptisms of 1735 to 1741 hold no Wesemann.

The clerk’s wording narrows the question a little. Almost every other bride or groom from outside Salzhemmendorf on the same page is given a village or town. Johann Heinrich alone is given only the territory. “Grubenhagen” may mean the principality as a whole (a search of Burg Grubenhagen itself found no Wesemann), or a small place the clerk did not trouble to name; each reading is a theory. A well-known town such as Einbeck, Osterode, Northeim or Salzderhelden would normally have been named, which leans against those towns. If the mill hand of 1767 was he, he had already lived three years at Salzhemmendorf, so the word gives where he came from, not his last place of work.

His burial at Linse in 1801 gives his age as 65, so he was born about 1736. Ages at burial in these registers often run a few years out. A birth as late as 1743 to 1746 is not ruled out, and a first marriage in 1770, at an age of 24 to 32 for a birth of 1738 to 1746, and the title of master miller by 1774 lean a little later than 1736. No baptism has been found for him, and no record names his father. None of the godparents of his six children was a Wesemann; the one from Grubenhagen, the miller Ludewig Küster, was possibly kin of the mother’s side, and the others from outside Linse came from her Salzhemmendorf circle. That fits a man who came to the district alone. The records most likely to name his origin have never been read: the file on the grant of the Linse mill in 1774 and the lease file of 1770 to 1782, both in the state archive at Wolfenbüttel, and the 1818 contract dividing his estate, known only from a later summary.

What the records do allow is one theory, one weak lead, and several families that turned out not to be his. None of them rises above “possibly.”

Hinrich of the middle mill: a theory. On 12 April 1722 “Hinrich Wasman from the middle mill” stood godfather at Linse, beside a mill hand of the village. Christian Sander was the middle miller in 1723 and 1729, and buried a child as middle miller in October 1725. On 26 July 1732 a son of “Eleonora Sand[?] … the middle miller’s wife at Linse” was baptized, and a soldier of the Halle garrison, “Hanß Hinrich Wasman,” is named in the entry. A musketeer, “Hans Heinrich Wasmann,” married Charlotte Wasmann at Halle on 6 June 1737. Johann Heinrich held this same middle mill from 1774, and the Linse clerks wrote him Wesemann or Wäsemann while writing the local family Wasmann. That local Wasmann family of Halle parish was a separate family, not part of the milling line, and keeps its own spelling in this book.

One reading of these records is that the miller, born about 1736, was a son of this Hinrich, or of the soldier of 1732 if they were one man; that he was born after Hinrich left Linse; and that he came back to the mill his father had known. In this reading Hinrich was a journeyman miller, not the tenant: the 1722 entry says only that he was “from the middle mill,” and another mill hand stood beside him. A journeyman of this kind could have ended up in Grubenhagen. He neither married nor was buried at Halle in the years that followed, which fits a man who left. The theory also takes the Dempewulffs, who held the middle mill from 1753 to 1774 apart from Schäfer’s years, as the family Johann Heinrich took over from.

Against it, no record names the miller’s father. He was “from Grubenhagen” in 1770, so Hinrich’s family would have had to be living in that Hanoverian principality by about 1736. No son of the right years was born to a Wasmann father at Halle in 1735 to 1737; the only Wasmann baptism there in those years is an illegitimate daughter of Charlotte Wasmann, Marie Sophie Margrete, in March 1737. And the godfather of 1722, the soldier of 1732 and the musketeer of 1737 have not been shown to be one man. Why Hinrich left, and where Johann Heinrich was born, are not known. The Wasmanns had been a family of Halle parish since 1592, at Dohnsen and Halle and at Linse itself in 1606 to 1611, but no record ties Hinrich to any of their households. The theory rests on circumstance only, and is possible at most.

Hemmendorf: the one weak lead still open. At Hemmendorf, the parish next to Salzhemmendorf, a boy named Johann Heinrich was born on 25 June 1739 and baptized on 28 June, the illegitimate son of Ilsa Catharina “Waßmann”; the entry names no father. His mother was probably Ilsa Catrina, daughter of the corporal Christian Wasmuth, baptized at Hemmendorf in 1721. The trail ends with the baptism; he leaves no later record at Hemmendorf. A Waßmann family lived at Levedagsen and Capellenhagen in the neighboring parish of Wallensen, and his sponsor, Hanß Henning Waßmann, may have been the elder Hans Henning of Levedagsen. In the lead’s favor are the date, both forenames, a boy with no farm to inherit, and the Küster mill next door as a possible master. Against it, a birth in June 1739 is three years later than the miller’s burial age implies; a local man would more naturally be called “of Hemmendorf” than “from Grubenhagen”; Hemmendorf lay in Calenberg, not Grubenhagen; and an illegitimate child carried his mother’s surname, while no record shows a Waßmann or Wasmuth becoming a Wesemann. He is possibly the miller, and ranks last among the possibilities.

Families set aside. Several families were tested against their registers and set aside as Johann Heinrich’s. Echte, in the district of Westerhof, had a Wesemann family whose men had left by 1702, and he was not baptized there. Northeim and Langenholtensen had Wesemann households in the generations before him, and a daughter of one of them was probably the Wesemann woman buried at Berka in 1759, but no Johann Heinrich Wesemann was baptized at Northeim in 1734 to 1742. The Wasmann millers of Schwiegershausen, in Grubenhagen, a separate family, kept their miller’s son in their own parish and had no Johann Heinrich born in 1724 to 1746. Near Hemmendorf, the Levedagsen Johann Heinrich Waßmann, born about May 1743, married at Deinsen in 1768 and was buried there in 1789; a Hans Hinrich, son of Hans Hinrich Waßmann of Levedagsen, baptized on 4 March 1738, remains a loose possibility tied to the miller by nothing. The Weesemann officials of Katlenburg, Ebergötzen and Einbeck held land and office in and around Grubenhagen, but none is linked to him, and the man buried at Ebergötzen in 1707, born about 1642 and probably the Katlenburg district officer, was too old to be his father. A Wasmann household at Hullersen, the only one found in the principality in his birth decade, has no entry in its baptisms of 1736 to 1750. Of these families, each is possibly kin to the miller at most, and none is linked to him.

Two families once put forward as the source of his parents have also been set aside. One was the household of Heinrich Harm Wasmann of Breitenkamp, a village of Kirchbrak parish, which lay in Brunswick, not Grubenhagen. The other was the Wesemann millers of Kleinenmarpe, in the county of Lippe, 28 kilometers west of Linse, who held their mill on hereditary lease from the 1670s into the 1850s. No baptism of a Johann Heinrich was found at Cappel, their parish; Cappel was a Reformed parish where Linse was Lutheran; and the miller’s marriage places him in Grubenhagen, not Lippe. Other Wesemann and Wasmann households of the district, among them the shepherds of Grave and Ottenstein, the Wasmanns of Halle, and a household at Eschershausen, were separate families; Chapter 13 of the family history book notes them.

A country of milling families: a theory. Johann Heinrich was not the only miller of his name in this part of Lower Saxony. Besides the Kleinenmarpe millers, Wesemanns worked three of the mills of Blomberg in Lippe, as an online family book gives them: Christopher Wesemann (about 1652 to 1730) the saw mill, Otto Henrich Wesemann (1687 to 1711) the lower mill, and Christopher Wesemann (1744 to 1799) the stone mill. That account is probable at most. A Hans Waßmann was the hereditary miller at Schwiegershausen in Grubenhagen in 1689, and a Johann Wasman, probably his son, ran that mill in 1716. In 1686 a district officer named Weesemann owned the mill at Hohnstedt on the Leine. A miller Wesemann of Reppner, near Salzgitter, appears in 1841 (see The German Mills). By the custom of the time only one son took over a mill. The others learned the trade, worked as journeymen, and found mills of their own by lease, by purchase or by marrying a miller’s widow or daughter, so a milling family could spread across a district within a few generations. The Küster millers did exactly this. Some of these Wesemann and Wasmann millers may share an origin, but no record links them to one another or to Johann Heinrich, and the surname was far more common among farmers, shepherds, craftsmen and servants than among millers. A shared name is not a shared family.

References

  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Salzhemmendorf Kirchenbuch 1699–1749 (churchRegister 200153), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer: Bild 25, p. 248 (the baptism of August 1717 to Jost von Campen); Bild 26, p. 249 (the baptism of “Joh. Wilhelm,” 20 March 1718); Bild 62, p. 321 (the marriage of Johann Wilhelm von Campe and Maria Eleonora Küster, 28 August 1749).
  • 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).
  • GenWiki, “Dassensen,” wiki.genealogy.net, with its entry for Nowak, Ortsfamilienbuch Dassensen, Wellersen, Rotenkirchen (Uslar, 1999), which covers 1790–1998.
  • Archion, the parish registers read for a Wesemann or Wasmann baptism of 1732–1742 in and around the principality of Grubenhagen (Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers; each register with its years and result in Methods and Records). Grubenhagen: Einbeck-Alexandri Taufen 1730–1774 (382582), Einbeck-Jacobi (382597), Einbeck-Marien Kirchenbuch 1730–1742 (382607), Einbeck garrison (382594), Katlenburg Taufen Trauungen 1714–1761 (382904), Odagsen (382731), Hullersen Kirchenbuch 1690–1790 (382652), Herzberg (358772), Osterode-Jakobi Kirchenbuch 1689–1732 (359238) and 1733–1753 (359239), Osterode-Marien (359260), Lerbach Namensregister 1728–1852 (359162), Elbingerode Namensregister Taufen 1663–1852 (411160), Lauterberg Namensregister Taufen 1710–1852 (411189), Nienstedt Kirchenbuch 1689–1750 (359168) and Namensregister Taufen 1597–1875 (359176), Negenborn Kirchenbuch 1660–1788 (382722); and the Harz villages of the Ämter Herzberg and Scharzfeld, Lonau Kirchenbuch 1721–1811 (358794), Barbis Kirchenbuch 1730–1821 (358731), Bartolfelde Taufen 1689–1827 (358733), Pöhlde Taufen 1701–1749 (358810), Hattorf Taufen 1664–1753 (358758), Scharzfeld Taufen 1706–1736 (358841) and Kirchenbuch 1737–1749 (358845), Osterhagen Taufen 1689–1840 (358806), Steina Taufen 1689–1831 (358856), Sieber Kirchenbuch 1687–1747 (358849), Sachsa Namensregister 1709–1739 (358838), and Wulften (359317) with its Namensregister 1591–1852 (359325). The border districts: Düderode Kirchenbuch 1731–1743 (359100), Dorste Namensregister Taufen 1627–1842 (359097), Stöckheim Namensregister Taufen 1727–1826 (382781), Eboldshausen (359112), Marke (382930, 382931), Edesheim (382814), Hammenstedt (382860), Elvershausen (382824), Hardegsen Kirchenbuch 1682–1786 (359384), Hohnstedt Kirchenbuch 1637–1749 (382882) and Lutterhausen (382926). And Kirch Grubenhagen, Mecklenburg (290777), baptisms October 1735 – February 1741.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Halle Kirchenbuch “Taufen Trauungen 1707–1740” (churchRegister 390645), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer: Bild 80, the baptism of 12 April 1722 with the godfather “Hinrich Wasman auß der Mittelmühlen”; the baptisms of 1721–1725 naming the Mittelmüller Christian Sander; Bild 130, the baptism of 26 July 1732; Bild 169–190, the marriages of November 1720 – 1736. Also: Bild 12–18 (1709–1710); Bild 68 (25 November 1719); Bild 73 (16 January 1721, the Sagebiel twins); Bild 79–83 (1722 – January 1723); Bild 93 (5 November 1724, Sophia Maria Meyerarens); Bild 100, p. 193 (29 March 1726); Bild 101–115 (April 1726 – January 1730), with Bild 108 and 113; Bild 129, p. 251 (29 June 1732); Bild 132–146 (February 1733 – December 1736), with Bild 136, pp. 264/265 (December 1733) and Bild 146, no. 31 (7 November 1736); Bild 158–169 (the marriages of 1712 – October 1720), with Bild 160 (1713) and Bild 162 (16 January 1715 or 1716); Bild 176, p. 325 (early 1726, the marriage of Anna Maria Brand and Johan Berthold Dröge); Bild 177 (18 October 1726); Bild 183–185 (the marriages of 1731–1732), with Bild 184 (25 September 1731).
  • Halle Kirchenbuch “Beerdigungen 1585–1734” (churchRegister 390642), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer: Bild 178–204, the burials of 1720–1734. Also: Bild 1–77 (the burials of 1585–1616) and Bild 78–158 (1616–1710), with Bild 129, p. 253 (1686 or 1687), Bild 136, p. 267 (29 April 1694) and Bild 142, p. 279 (3 May 1698); Bild 160–192 (1711 – November 1727), with Bild 165, 167 (October 1714), 178, 183 and 192 (20 July and 24 October 1727); Bild 193–202 (1728–1733), with Bild 199, p. 392 (11 March 1731) and Bild 201, p. 396 (14 June 1733).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Archion, Hemmendorf (Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers): Kirchenbuch 1642–1735 (199808; Bild 84, the baptism of 1721), Kirchenbuch 1736–1751 (199811; Bild 7, the baptism of 28 June 1739; marriages, confirmations), Kirchenbuch 1750–1826 (199814; marriages 1750–1774) and Namensregister 1650–1793 (199835). With A. Heise, Kirchenbuch der Stadt Hemmendorf, 1642–1906 (Niedersächsischer Landesverein für Familienkunde, 2000; kreibaum.de), a third-party abstract. Also, in Heise: 33/589, 6/25, 16/15, 17/65, 4/164 and 33/482 (Antoinette Wesemann, her daughter Dorothe Caroline Charlotte Heinemeyer and the Dahle family, 1846–1886).
  • Archion, Wallensen (Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge): Kirchenbuchabschrift Taufen 1666–1808 (200237; Bilder 31–53, 1732–1742), Kirchenbuchabschrift Konfirmationen, Trauungen, Beerdigungen 1732–1808 (200243) and Namensregister (200252), typed copies. With Ludwig Schwabe (comp.), Verzeichnis der Getrauten und Proclamierten in der Kirchengemeinde Wallensen 1716–1808 (digitized by Friedrich Vennekohl, 2013; hege-elze.de), a third-party transcription. Also Wallensen Kirchenbuchabschrift Beerdigungen 1809–1875 (churchRegister 200249), a typed copy: Bild 59, p. 285, 1842 nos. 43 and 44 (Johann Heinrich Wecke and Caroline Wecke née Brandes of Thüste).
  • Archion, Echte (Kirchenkreis Osterode, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers): Kirchenbuch 1702–1748 (359119; baptisms 1702–1743, with Bild 74, the sponsor “Cath. Eli. Wesemanns” of 10 March 1738; burials 1712–1749), Kirchenbuch 1749–1793 (359120; marriages, baptisms and burials) and Familienbuch 1635–1900 (359129; Blatt 209, Bild 258, the Wesemann sheet).
  • Archion, Northeim St. Sixti (Kirchenkreis Northeim, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers): Taufen 1700–1733 (382951; Bild 61 and 73, 1715 and 1717); Taufen 1734–1775 (382952; Bild 14, 31 January 1736, and the soldier’s children of 1735–1741); Konfirmationen Trauungen Beerdigungen 1700–1733 (382956; Bild 58, the marriage of 5 November 1715; Bild 86, the banns of November 1729); Konfirmationen Trauungen Beerdigungen 1734–1775 (382957; Bild 51, the marriage of 27 November 1749); and the Namensregister Taufen 1700–1733 (382972) and Trauungen 1700–1733 (382977).
  • Berka Kirchenbuch 1744–1794 (churchRegister 382792), Kirchenkreis Northeim, Archion online viewer: Bild 147, the burial of Ilse Maria Deneken née Wesemann, 3 September 1759; Bild 148, the burial of Justus Christoph Deneke, 18 September 1759. With the Online-Ortsfamilienbuch Berka (ofb.genealogy.net) for Georg Ludwig Denecke, died at Berka 25 December 1767.
  • Archion, Schwiegershausen (Kirchenkreis Osterode, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers): Taufen 1691–1727 (359272; Bild 16, the baptism of 9 June 1702; Bild 88, 97, 101 and 132, the miller Johann Wasman and his wife, 1716–1726) and Kirchenbuch 1699–1786 (359273; burials, Bild 177, 195, 201 and 239; baptisms and marriages to 1758 for the later millers Koch and Strüver).
  • Friedrich Vennekohl, Kirchen-Buch von Deinsen (Dedensen), königl. Amts Lauenstein 1719–1907 (transcription, Deinsen, 2016; kreibaum.de), pp. 21, 280 and 421, a third-party transcription. Also pp. 295, 106, 435, 132, 468 (Dorothea Richmann and Johann Heinrich Marahrens, 1815–1851) and p. 300 (the Bähr family of Marienhagen).
  • Arcinsys Niedersachsen und Bremen, catalogue titles for “Weesemann”: NLA HA, Cal. Br. 3 Nr. 902 (Amtmann Weesemann at Katlenburg against residents of Amt Radolfshausen, 1671–1677); NLA HA, Hann. 27 Hannover Nr. 616 (Ernst Heinrich Weesemann, former Amtmann at Katlenburg, 1687–1688); NLA WO, 8 Alt Greene Nr. 116 (the fief of the Weesemann before Holzhausen, 1780–1781). And Stadtarchiv Göttingen, AA 7635 (Johann Heinrich Wesemann, horse doctor, held at Katlenburg, 1754–1756), not online. Catalogue level only.
  • Archion, Ebergötzen (Kirchenkreis Göttingen, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers): Kirchenbuch 1670–1723 (352540; Bild 118, the burial of [Ernst] Henrich Wesemann; Bild 282, the name index) and Kirchenbuch 1724–1753 (352541; the index, Bild 18, and the baptisms of about 1732–1742).
  • Archion, Einbeck (Kirchenkreis Einbeck): Familienregister L–Z 1627–1699 (382563; Bild 175, the Wesemann block) and Namensregister Taufen 1700–1725 (382566; the W rows, Bild 431–465). Index and family-register rows only.
  • Hullersen Kirchenbuch 1690–1790 (churchRegister 382652), Kirchenkreis Einbeck, Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Archion online viewer: the marriages of 1711–1775 (Bild 139–142), the baptisms of 1712–1750 and the burials of 1714–1745. With de.wikipedia, “Hullersen,” for Kohnsen as the neighbouring village.
  • Online-Ortsfamilienbuch Oerlinghausen (ofb.genealogy.net), the Blomberg Wesemann entries, from an imported GEDCOM: Christopher Wesemann (about 1652 – 23 August 1730), Otto Henrich Wesemann (19 July 1687 – 18 July 1711) and Christopher Wesemann (21 May 1744 – 8 February 1799). A compiled source.