Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 217 (Burials, written pages 22–23, "Begrabene ao. 1769")

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Beerdigungen) 1766-1799, Bild 217 (archion.de). Archion register 390648.

Only the entry involving the Wesemann/Wasmann surname is included below. Uncertain readings are marked (?). Read directly from the archival scan for this file; the project previously held this entry in English summary only, without a German transcription.

German

6\. Dohnsen am 25. Apr. ♂ hor. 11. vesp. starb Anne Margrete Wasmann, eine unverehelichte Person, an der Brustkrankheit, u. wurde am 30. ej. begrab., ihres Alters 58½ Jahr. (nata Dohnsen 1710. d. 2. Nov.)

English

No. 6. Dohnsen, 25 April, a Tuesday, at eleven in the evening, died Anne Margrete Wasmann, an unmarried person, of a chest ailment, and was buried on the 30th of the same month, aged 58½ years. (Born at Dohnsen, 2 November 1710.)

Notes

> Correction: the day symbol is ♂, Tuesday, not Friday as carried in the project's earlier English summary. 25 April 1769 was a Tuesday. The same symbol appears on entry 5 of this leaf, dated 18 April, also a Tuesday. > > Brustkrankheit is the standard period term for a chest or respiratory ailment; it does not name a specific disease and should not be rendered as tuberculosis. > > She confirms Dohnsen as a Wasmann family seat, not just a village a Wasmann daughter married into. Born there in 1710, she is almost exactly contemporary with Heinrich Harm Wasmann, born 1712 at Bredenkamp. > > Register 390645, Bild 111, names an Anna Margarethe, daughter of Hanß Herman Wasmann of Dohnsen, standing godmother at eighteen or nineteen. Same forename, same village, right age; on the balance of the evidence these are one woman, which supplies a father this project does not otherwise have for her. Grading: working theory. > > She died unmarried and has no descendants of her own. Her value is as a generational anchor and as Chapter 10 material. > > Register attribution: the Archion breadcrumb on this scan reads Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder \> Halle. Several per-Bild files in this project cite the 1766–1799 register as Linse.

Additional material from another version of this entry

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Dohnsen, 25th of April, Friday, at 11 p.m. Anne Margrete Wasmann died, an unmarried person, of a chest ailment [likely tuberculosis or a similar respiratory condition — "Brustkrankheit" is the standard period term], and was buried on the 30th of the same month, aged 58½ years. (Born [at] Dohnsen, 1710, 2nd of November.)

This confirms Dohnsen as a genuine Wasmann family seat, not just a place a Wasmann daughter married into — Anne Margrete was born there in 1710, making her almost exactly contemporary with Heinrich Harm Wasmann (born 1712 at Bredenkamp). If they're siblings or cousins, that puts the Wasmann family's presence at both Dohnsen and Bredenkamp back to at least the very early 1700s, likely earlier if their own parents were already established there.

She died unmarried at 58, meaning she has no descendants of her own to trace, but she's a valuable anchor point regardless — she confirms the generation, the birth village, and gives you an exact birth date (2 November 1710) that could be cross-referenced against baptismal records from Dohnsen around that date, if the register goes back that far.

You're now assembling a real two-generation-deep picture: an older Wasmann generation born ~1710–1712 at Dohnsen and Bredenkamp, and the younger generation (the night watchman, Christoph, Friedrich, etc.) active in Halle, Linse, and Tuchtfeld a generation or two later. That's exactly the kind of structure a proper chart will make click into place once you've got enough of these logged.