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Born 24 December, at 11 in the evening.

Entry 40. Halle, 27th of December, Friday. Johann Heinrich Wasmann and Marie Catharina Wollenweber (six months after the marriage) had their daughter baptized. Godparents: 1) Johann Harm Ahlrecht; 2) Johann Heinrich Othmer; 3) Sophie Brakmann; 4) Engel Marie Böker.

The child was named: Marie Eleonore. †

On "6 Monat nach der Copulation": this is the clerk noting, explicitly, that the child was born only six months after the parents' marriage — a deliberate flag, since a full-term pregnancy would put conception before the wedding. Clergy in this period sometimes noted this to record a socially significant fact (a child conceived out of wedlock but legitimated by marriage before birth), distinct from the "unehelich" (illegitimate) entries you've seen where no marriage occurred at all. It's a softer category — legitimate by the time of birth, but the timing was worth documenting.

This is your primary Halle couple — Johann Heinrich Wasmann and Marie Catharina Wollenweber, the same pair behind Rebecca, the unnamed daughter with six godparents, and others you found early in the day. This Marie Eleonore entry, with the cross mark, is very likely the same girl whose death record you found — "Marie Eleonore, Johann Heinrich Wasmanns Tochter... aged 10 years, 8 weeks" — meaning you now have her full record: born 24 December, baptized 27 December, died at just past age 10. The six-months-after-marriage detail also gives you a fairly precise wedding date for her parents — roughly June of the same year, which is worth calculating exactly and logging if you want to search for their marriage record specifically.