Archion Church Register 390652 — Halle, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder

The record

Kirchenbuch 1845–1868 · Revised transcription of the four Brand-surname entries

Finding 2 — Bild 87, printed pages 166/167, entry 2, births, 1868

A baptism in which a Brand appears only as a witness. Six crops were supplied, several of them overlapping magnifications of the same two columns.

390652_Page87-Entry2a — full entry row

390652_Page87-Entry2c — father’s column

390652_Page87-Entry2d — father and mother columns

390652_Page87-Entry2e — mother’s column and date of birth

390652_Page87-Entry2f — baptismal name and witnesses

390652_Page87-Entry2b — date columns

Changed from the earlier pass. The child is a daughter, and the third given name is Dorothee, not Wilhelmine. The father’s trade reads “Bauer und [Gastwirth]” rather than “Bauer/Anspänner.” His surname is not Müller — there is no umlaut and no final r — though what it is instead is unresolved. Witnesses 1 and 2 are recovered. Adolphine Brand is confirmed as written.

Nothing here connects to the project. A baptismal witness is the weakest possible link: it establishes that Adolphine Brand was an unmarried woman living at Halle in 1868 and nothing else. She is plausibly a daughter or granddaughter of one of the other Halle Brands in this register, but the entry gives no parentage.