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Born 11 April, at 9 in the evening.

Entry 16. Linse, 15th of April. Heinrich Harm Wasmann and Catharine Margarete Borchers had their daughter baptized. Godparents: 1) Hans Dietrich Borchers, pastor of Buchhagen; 2) the schoolmaster Ernst Wilhelm Eickhoff's wife; 3) Georg Meier's wife, both of Linse.

The child was named: Anne Dorothee Marlene.

This is a good, clean match to your burial record. Heinrich Harm Wasmann (b. 1712, Bredenkamp, d. 1768, Linse, age 56) would be 49 in 1761 — well within plausible fathering age, especially if Catharine Margarete Borchers was younger or this was a later child in the marriage. His father-in-law connection is notable too: the godparent Hans Dietrich Borchers, pastor of Buchhagen, is very likely his wife's father or close relative, given the shared surname Borchers — a pastor marrying his daughter into a local farming/labouring family would be a normal social pattern.

This also reconfirms Eickhoff as a recurring Linse family (the schoolmaster's wife here), consistent with Justus Heinrich Eickhoff, the schoolmaster from your earlier 1799 entry — quite possibly the same man or his father, given the shared occupation and village.

So you now have Heinrich Harm Wasmann's death record (1768) and at least one of his children's birth records (Anne Dorothee Marlene, 1761) — worth checking your spreadsheet for whether he has other children documented too, since he'd have been of childbearing/fathering age for a couple of decades before his death.