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Page 181/286 - 1798
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Linse, 9th of March, 11 o'clock in the morning. A son born to [the master carpenter?] Heinrich Ludwig Meyer. The mother, Catrine Elisabeth Eickhoff, aged 29 years.
Godparents: Georg Christian Dempewulff; Johann Friedrich Düvel; Marie Louise Jagebieler; Henriette Wasmann.
Baptized 12th of the same month. Named: Georg Friedrich Ludewig.
Two things worth flagging:
This entry is dated and baptized on the exact same days as the previous one you sent (9 March, baptized 12th) — same village, consecutive entry numbers (8 and 9). That's not a coincidence; it's simply two baptisms recorded on the same church day, common when a parish held services on a fixed schedule.
The recurring cast is the same tight circle again — Dempewulff, Düvel, Eickhoff, and now Wasmann all appearing across entries 8, 9, and the earlier ones you've built up. This confirms what you were seeing before: Linse in this period is a small, closed community where the same handful of families stand godparent for each other repeatedly, and Wasmann and Wesemann are both circulating in that same small group — which is exactly why they end up looking connected across the record.
The mother's maiden name here, Meyer's wife Catrine Elisabeth Eickhoff, is interesting alongside your earlier Wasmann/Meyer couple — different Meyer marriage, but worth double-checking you're not conflating two Meyer families in Linse if you build the tree out further.
German
9\. Linse, d. 9ten März h. XI a.m. der Regierungsmeister(?) Heinrich Ludwig Meyer sein [Kind] geboren. Die Mutter Catrine Elisabeth Eickhoff, alt 29 Jahr. Gevattern: Georg Christian Dempewulff, Johann Friedrich Düvel, Marie Louise Jagebieler, Henriette Waßmann. Getauft d. 12ten ejusd. Nom: Georg Friedrich Ludewig.
English
9\. Linse, the 9th of March, 11 a.m. A child born to [official title illegible(?)] Heinrich Ludwig Meyer. The mother Catrine Elisabeth Eickhoff, aged 29. Godparents: Georg Christian Dempewulff, Johann Friedrich Düvel, Marie Louise Jagebieler, Henriette Waßmann [Wesemann]. Baptized the 12th of the same month. Name: Georg Friedrich Ludewig.