Kemnade Taufen 1838–1842 — Bilder 5, 7, 21 (1838–1842)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Holzminden-Bodenwerder, Kemnade, Kirchenbuch (Taufen) 1838-1842 (archion.de).

Bild 5 — Taufregister, Entry No. 9, Jahr 1838 (Wesemann) — Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Holzminden-Bodenwerder, Kemnade, Kirchenbuch (Taufen) 1838-1842, Bild 5 (archion.de).

German transcription: 9. Vater: <u>Wesemann</u>, Heinrich Christian Ludewig, Mühlenpächter zu Thran. Mutter: Hanne Caroline Wilhelmine, geborene Brand, neun und zwanzig Jahr alt. Geburt: Der dreißigste Julius, Nachmittags zwei Uhr. Taufe: Der zweiten(?) September. Kind: (Sohn) Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried. Taufzeugen: 1. Marie Johanne Henriette(?) Wilhelmine Albrecht, geborene Müller. 2. Georg Alexander(?) Ludewig, Mühlenmeister zu Thran. 3. Johann Ehrenfried Rödeling(?), [Beruf, nicht gelesen] zu Kemnade.

English translation: 9. Father: Wesemann (underlined in the original), Heinrich Christian Ludewig, mill tenant (Mühlenpächter) at Thran. Mother: Hanne Caroline Wilhelmine, née Brand, twenty-nine years old. Birth: the thirtieth of July, two o’clock in the afternoon. Baptism: the second(?) of September. Child: (son) Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried. Godparents: 1. Marie Johanne Henriette(?) Wilhelmine Albrecht, née Müller. 2. Georg Alexander(?) Ludewig, mill-master (Mühlenmeister) at Thran. 3. Johann Ehrenfried Rödeling(?), [trade, not read] at Kemnade.

> Why this is the emigrant’s baptism. The birth date and hour — 30 July, two in the afternoon — match George’s emigration record and the January 1860 military dispensation file compiled at Holzminden, neither of which the parish clerk saw. The mother’s stated age of twenty-nine fits her birth on 16 July 1809 to the fortnight. The child’s third given name, Ehrenfried, is the given name of godparent 3, following the sponsor-naming pattern that runs through this family. > > What it settles. The largest open question in the project — if not at Linse, where was George baptized — is answered. Emergency baptism and clerical omission at Linse are both ruled out: this is an ordinary numbered entry on the standing formula with three godparents and a full baptism date. The thirty-four-day interval between birth and baptism is unusual for this family, which baptized its October 1832 daughter two days after birth. > > Note on unresolved readings. Godparent 3’s trade breaks across two lines and the second line ends -ber zu Kemnade; Färber, Schreiber and Weber all fit. Godparent 2 is entered with three given names and no surname, which in this register normally means the surname repeats the father’s at the head of the column; if so this is a Wesemann Mühlenmeister at Thran, and the middle name reads Alexander with a clear descending x. The baptism day reads zweiten on the strength of a single ascender in the word.

Taufen 1838–1842 — Bild 5 (Kemnade, Taufregister, 1838) — Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried Wesemann

Only the entry involving the Wesemann/Wasmann surname is included below. Uncertain readings are marked (?). The register is ruled in columns: entry number | father | mother | birth | baptism | child and sex | godparents. The family surname is written once, underlined, at the head of the father's column, and is not repeated in the child's column.

Notes

> This is the emigrant's baptism. The birth date and hour — 30 July, two in the afternoon — match his emigration record and the January 1860 military dispensation file compiled at Holzminden, neither of which the parish clerk saw. The mother's stated age fits her birth on 16 July 1809 to the fortnight. The child's third given name, Ehrenfried, is the given name of godparent 3, following the sponsor-naming pattern that runs through this family. > > It answers the project's largest open question — if not at Linse, where was he baptized. Emergency baptism and clerical omission at Linse are both ruled out: this is an ordinary numbered entry on the standing formula, with three godparents and a full baptism date. > > The thirty-four-day interval between birth and baptism is unusual for this household, which baptized its October 1832 daughter two days after birth.