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Baptism: Johann Heinrich Conrad Meyer, Linse, 25 April 1793 (godfather Conrad Wesemann)

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Transcription (German)

12 / Linse d. 22ten April ist Johann Heinrich Meyer ein Sohn geboren. Mutter Sophie Catrine Sagebiel alt 28 Jahr.

Gev.: Conrad Wesemann, Conrad Sagebiel, Christiane Schmied, Friedrike Amalia Lindenberg.

get. d. 25ten ejusd. Nom. Johann Heinrich Conrad. [Below, later hand:] † 1850.

Translation (English)

No. 12. Linse. On 22 April [1793] a son was born to Johann Heinrich Meyer. Mother: Sophie Catrine Sagebiel, aged 28.

Godparents: Conrad Wesemann, Conrad Sagebiel, Christiane Schmied, Friedrike Amalia Lindenberg.

Baptized on the 25th of the same month. Name: Johann Heinrich Conrad. [Later note:] died 1850.

Notes

‘Conrad Wesemann’ at Linse in 1793 is probably the miller’s son Johann Conrad Ludewig Wesemann (baptized Salzhemmendorf 1772), aged 21. The child’s ‘Conrad’ is shared with two godfathers.
Spelled Wesemann, as this clerk spells the miller’s household throughout 1790–1799.

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