Taufen und Beerdigungen 1800–1814 — Bild 96 (Halle, written pages 186–187, 1809)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch “Taufen Beerdigungen 1800-1814,” Bild 96 (archion.de).

German

17/ Linse d. 16ten July Abends 10 Uhr ist dem Halbmeier Christian Brand eine Tochter geboren. Die Mutter: Caroline Charlotte Sporleder aus Linse, alt 26 Jahr.

Gevattern: Christoph Waßmann, Christoph Brand — Linse.

Getauft d. 19t July. Nom: Hanne Caroline Wilhelmine.

[spätere Hand:] † 1852.

English

17. Linse, the 16th of July at ten in the evening, a daughter was born to the half-farmer Christian Brand. The mother: Caroline Charlotte Sporleder of Linse, aged 26 years.

Godparents: Christoph Waßmann, Christoph Brand, both of Linse.

Baptized the 19th of July. Name: Hanne Caroline Wilhelmine.

[later hand:] Died 1852.

What this entry establishes

• This is George’s mother’s baptism, and the birth date it records, 16 July 1809, matches her death entry of 1852 to the day. The later hand that added † 1852 to this leaf made the connection itself.
• Her mother’s maiden name is Sporleder. The word left unread in the 1832 marriage entry, and provisionally transcribed there as Thonlader or Thonlacker, is wrong. Caroline Charlotte Sporleder, aged 26 in July 1809, was born about 1783.
• Her father is Christian Brand, Halbmeier at Linse — a half-farmer in the village itself, not at Halle. The Halle Brands, the Vollmeier of house number 3 and the innkeeping family, are a different rank and probably a different household.
• A Waßmann stands godfather at a Brand baptism in 1809, twenty-three years before the two families intermarried. The connection between the milling house and the half-farming house predates the marriage by a generation.
• Caroline Charlotte Sporleder, born about 1783, is the same woman as the Marie Caroline Charlotte née Sporleder who died in 1847 as the mother of the 1846 Brand groom. That makes the 1832 bride and the 1846 groom brother and sister, and the two Wesemann–Brand marriages one alliance rather than two coincidences.

German

16/ Linse d. 28ten Juny Morgens 1 Uhr ist Johann Friederich Ißelhorst ein Sohn geboren. Die Mutter: Louise Benten aus Latferde, alt 41 Jahr.

Gevattern: Heinrich Ziele, Wilhelm Kramer, Conrad Sporleder, Ludewig Wesemanns Ehefrau, Johann Heinrich Sagebiels Ehefrau, Christoph Wasmanns Ehefrau — sämmtlich aus Linse.

Getauft d. 2ten July. Nom: Johann Heinrich Conrad.

English

16. Linse, the 28th of June at one in the morning, a son was born to Johann Friederich Ißelhorst. The mother: Louise Benten of Latferde, aged 41 years.

Godparents: Heinrich Ziele, Wilhelm Kramer, Conrad Sporleder, the wife of Ludewig Wesemann, the wife of Johann Heinrich Sagebiel, the wife of Christoph Wasmann, all of Linse.

Baptized the 2nd of July. Name: Johann Heinrich Conrad.

Notes on entry 16

• Wesemann and Wasmann appear in the same godparent list, in one hand, four lines apart, one spelled with the middle vowel and one without. This is a second instance of the distinction the project relies on, alongside the 1799 entry at Linse.
• Ludewig Wesemanns Ehefrau is Justine Marie née Küster, placing the milling household at Linse in June 1809 and confirming the marriage was productive by then.
• Conrad Sporleder of Linse stands godfather here six weeks before Caroline Charlotte Sporleder appears as a mother in entry 17. The Sporleders are resident in the village, not incomers.