Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 215 (Burials, written pages 18–19, "1768")

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Beerdigungen) 1766-1799, Bild 215 (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\. Linse am 19. April hor. 6. mat. starb Heinr. Harm Wasmann an einer hitzigen Krankheit u. wurde am 24ten ejusd. ☉ begraben, aet. 56 Jahr 7 Wochen. (nat. Bredenkamp 1712. d. 27. Febr.)

English

No. 6. Linse, 19 April at six in the morning, died Heinrich Harm Wasmann of an acute illness, and was buried on the 24th of the same month, a Sunday, aged 56 years 7 weeks. (Born at Bredenkamp, 27 February 1712.)

Notes

> Correction, and it matters. The project has carried this entry as recording a forty-three-year illness, and has treated that duration as an unusual detail worth preserving. The word is hitzigen — an acute, feverish illness, the standard period term. There is no duration in the entry at all. The reading is confirmed by the same clerk two leaves later, at Bild 217, entry 3, which writes an einem hitzigen Fieber in the same hand. Every document carrying the forty-three-year reading needs updating. > > The burial-day symbol is ☉, Sunday. 24 April 1768 was a Sunday, which checks. > > The large "413" written to the right of the surname is a page or index reference in the register's own cross-referencing system. > > Heinrich Harm Wasmann remains the leading candidate for the father of Johann Heinrich Wesemann, the Linse miller, on age, place, succession timing and the forename element Heinrich. His occupation is not recorded here; this clerk's burial template carries no occupation field, so its absence is uninformative. Grading: working theory, unchanged by this re-read. > > The surname is written Wasmann and is underlined, which is this clerk's indexing convention.

Additional material from another version of this entry

Paragraphs already present above, word for word or nearly so, have been left out. Everything below differs from the text above in at least one reading, date, name or note, and is kept so that no reading is lost.*

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Linse, 19 April, at 6 in the morning, Heinrich Harm Wasmann died, [after] a 43-year illness, and was buried on the 24th of the same month, aged 56 years, 7 weeks. (Born [at] Bredenkamp, 1712, 27 February.)

This is a strong anchor. Full birth date (27 Feb 1712, at Bredenkamp — a new place name for your map), full death date (19 April 1768), burial date (24 April 1768), and a striking detail: 43 years of illness, which is an unusually specific and long duration for a parish clerk to record — worth noting as-is rather than smoothing over, since it's a genuinely unusual thing to write down and might reflect something the family or community considered notable.

The "413" written large to the right looks like a page or index-reference number, consistent with the cross-referencing system you saw in the surname index — worth checking if that number corresponds to another entry for this same man elsewhere in the register (his baptism, marriage, or children's baptisms).

Given his birth year of 1712, Heinrich Harm Wasmann is a full generation earlier than the Halle night-watchman Wasmann and the Linse Wasmann/Meyer couple you've been building out — likely a grandfather or great-uncle figure to the people you've been tracking all afternoon. Bredenkamp as his birthplace is a new location, worth adding to your growing map alongside Polle, Kemnade, Bremke, Leidagsen, Dohnsen, Halle, Tuchtfeld, and Linse.

This burial section is worth working through methodically once you're past the baptisms — death entries like this one, with birthplace and exact ages, are often the most information-dense records in the whole register for anchoring generations.