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Halle Kirchenbuch, Taufen und Trauungen 1707–1740
Transcript and translation
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The record
Archion Register 390645 — Wasmann/Wesemann entries, 24 leaves, with cross-references to 390647
Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Trauungen) 1707–1740, Archion register 390645. Individual leaves cited by Archion Bild number. Burial evidence at the end of the analysis is from Halle, Taufen Konfirmationen Beerdigungen 1741–1765, Archion register 390647.
Bild 148 — 21 March 1737, Halle
Baptism. Wasmann role: MOTHER. An illegitimate child.
German
6\. Halle am 21. Mart. Charlotte Wasmanns ihr unehelich Kind taufen lassen. Ist genannt Marie Sophie Margrete.
English
No. 6. Halle, 21 March. Charlotte Wasmann had her illegitimate child baptized. She is named Marie Sophie Margrete.
Notes
> Charlotte Wasmann, the tailor’s daughter of Bild 106, ten years on. No father is named and no penalty or annotation is recorded — the entry sits in the ordinary numbered sequence between two others. > > This is direct confirmation of Chapter 1’s finding, from a different century of the same parish, that illegitimacy was entered here without shaming apparatus. > > The absence of a named father is the loss. A Braunschweig clerk of this period often names the putative father; this one does not.
Taufen und Trauungen 1707–1740 — Bild 148 (Halle, Taufregister, 1737)
Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Trauungen) 1707-1740, Bild 148 (archion.de). Archion register 390645.
Only the entry involving the Wesemann/Wasmann surname is included below. Uncertain readings are marked (?). The Wasmann role in this entry is MOTHER; the child is illegitimate.
Entry No. 6 — Baptism, 21 March 1737 (Halle)
> Charlotte Wasmann is the master tailor's daughter of Bild 106 of this register, ten years on. No father is named and no penalty or annotation is recorded — the entry sits in the ordinary numbered sequence between two others. > > The surname is underlined, which is this clerk's indexing convention and the same one running through Bilder 143 and 187 of this register.