Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 122 (Baptisms, pp. 238–239, 1790)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Linse, Kirchenbuch (Taufen) 1766-1799, Bild 122 (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

6\. Tuchtfeld, d. 4ten April h. XI mat. Der Halbwirth Hans Jürgen Bäker seine Tochter geboren. Die Mutter Louise Eilers, alt 35 Jahr. Gevattern: Johann Wasmann aus Linse, Johann Heinr. Schierling(?) zu Tuchtfeld, Sophie Louise Loges(?), Marie Cathrine Krause aus Eschershausen(?). Getauft den 11ten April. Nom: Johann Friedrich Ludewig.

English

6\. Tuchtfeld, the 4th of April, 11 a.m. A daughter born to the half-farmer Hans Jürgen Bäker. The mother Louise Eilers, aged 35. Godparents: Johann Wasmann [Wesemann] of Linse, Johann Heinr. Schierling(?) of Tuchtfeld, Sophie Louise Loges(?), Marie Cathrine Krause of Eschershausen(?). Baptized the 11th of April. Name: Johann Friedrich Ludewig.

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Tuchtfeld, 4th of April, 11 o'clock in the morning. A son of Hans Jürgen Bäker and his wife Louise Eders, aged 38 years.

Godparents: Johann Wasmann, of Linse; Johann Heinrich [Gesterling?], of Tuchtfeldt; Sophie Louise [Foyen?]; Marie Cathrine Krause, of [Fröttmühl?].

Baptized 11th of April. Named: Johann Friedrich Ludewig.

What this does for your research: Johann Wasmann is now explicitly tied to Linse as his home village — "Johann Wasmann aus Linse" — standing as a godparent in the neighboring town of Tuchtfeld. That places the Wasmann family and the Wesemann/Wäßemann family (the miller and his kin) in the same small geographic cluster: Linse as the shared home base, with people from there showing up as witnesses in nearby Tuchtfeld's records too.

This also means the earlier entry I flagged as uncertain — the one with Johann Friedrich Wasmann and Marie Eleonore Hundertmark, place name unclear — was very likely also Tuchtfeld, not a separate unknown town. Worth revisiting that transcription with this confirmed spelling in hand; the letters should match now that you know what to look for.

So the picture solidifying: Linse and Tuchtfeld are two neighboring villages where the same set of families — Wasmann, Wesemann/Wäßemann, Hundertmark — intermarry and stand as godparents for each other across generations. That's a tight, coherent cluster, and it's the kind of geographic anchor that makes the rest of the tree-building much more tractable than treating each entry as an isolated data point.