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Halle, 5 January [baptized]. A daughter of Johann Wasmann, formerly a day-labourer and [occupation unclear], and Marie Catharine Wollenweber. Born 4 January, between 12 and 1 o'clock. Godparents: 1) Wilhelm [Eckhof?], a journeyman potter; 2) Jacob Hundertmark; 3) Amalia Ahlbrecht; 4) Justine Wasemann, my servant, likewise of Halle.

Named: Johanne Justine Amalia.

That's the name. Godparent 4 — Justine Wasemann — is written with the e clearly present between s and mann, unlike every "Wasmann" in this and the surrounding entries. Compare it directly against "Joh. Wasmann" two lines above in the same hand: the father's name is the short W-a-ß/s-mann shape you've been confirming all along; the godmother's name has the extra syllable. Same scribe, same page, two visibly different words.

So this is worth sitting with: you have a Wasmann family (the parents, repeated across at least four entries) and, in the same entry, a Wasemann individual who is explicitly not one of them — she's the priest's own household servant ("ancilla mea" — "my maidservant," meaning the officiating clergyman's), from Halle. That's a real, distinct name appearing in the same document, which tells you two things: the distinction between Wasmann and Wesemann/Wasemann was meaningful to this scribe (he wasn't just varying spelling carelessly), and if you're chasing a Wesemann/Wasemann line, this Halle parish just gave you an actual lead — a woman named Justine Wasemann, in service to a clergyman in Halle, roughly this period.