Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 255 (Burials, "1785")

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Beerdigungen) 1766-1799, Bild 255 (archion.de). Archion register 390648.

Only the entry involving the Wesemann/Wasmann surname is included below. Uncertain readings are marked (?). The leaf is faint; the reading below was taken from an enhanced crop at up to fourteen times native resolution.

German

10\. Linse am 6. Jul. ♀ hor. 10 vesp. starb Jo. Georg Christian Wasmann, ein [hiesig]er Jüngling, Jo. Heinr. Wasmanns, und Leibzüchters, Sohn, an Geschwulst u. Wassersucht, u. wurde am 10. ej. ☉ begraben, aetatis 21 Jahr 10 Tage. (nat. 1764. am 27. Jun.)

English

No. 10. Linse, 6 July at ten in the evening, died Johann Georg Christian Wasmann, a young man of this place, son of Johann Heinrich Wasmann, Leibzüchter, of swelling and dropsy, and was buried on the 10th, a Sunday, aged 21 years 10 days. (Born 1764, 27 June.)

Notes

> The occupational word is secure. At fourteen times native resolution the letterforms read L-e-i-b-z-ü-ch-t-e-r-s without ambiguity. This is the line that settles the identity of the 1759 Tuchtfeld groom. > > Two readings in this project's earlier transcription of this leaf are withdrawn. The deceased is entered as Sohn, not as a Jungfer or Tochter. The cause is Geschwulst und Wassersucht, swelling and dropsy, not a reproductive ailment. > > Dates: 27 June 1764 to 6 July 1785 is 21 years 9 days; the clerk writes 10. 10 July 1785 was a Sunday, matching the ☉ on the burial. > > What it changes. The father here is the Leibzüchter Johann Heinrich Waßmann of Linse, born about 1729, died November 1805 — the second man of that name whom Chapter 1 separates from the miller. Marie Sophie Marahrens was his first wife; Ilse Margrete Hundertmark came after her. Harm Christoph Wasmann, Erbschöffe at Tuchtfeld, is his father, and so belongs in the companion index rather than in Chapter 1's pedigree. > > Chapter 1's separation of the two men called Johann Heinrich is corroborated rather than threatened: the Leibzüchter now has a first marriage, a father, an origin village and a son of his own. The consequence is that the miller's thirty-eight-year documentary gap reopens and widens.

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, 6th of July, Friday, at 10 in the evening, died [the wife/intended of] Johann Georg Wasmann, formerly [the daughter of?] Johann Heinrich Wasmann, now [his wife?], of [a womb-related ailment / possibly childbirth complications] and dropsy (edema), and was buried on the 10th, Sunday.

Aged 21 years, 10 days. Additional Context: (Document ID: 390647) Page 169/273 - 1764

born 27 June 1764, died 6 July 1785. That's 21 years and about 9 days — which matches almost exactly the "alt 21 Jahr, 10 Tage" from the death entry you sent earlier today.

This is the same person. The marginal note at the bottom of this birth record — "† 1785, d. 6. Jul., hor. 9. vesp." — is a later annotation added to the baptismal entry to cross-reference the eventual death. That's a real find: you've now matched a birth record to its death record 21 years apart, both anchored by exact dates that agree.

I need to correct my earlier transcription, though. This birth record clearly names the child as a son — "ihren Sohn," Johann Georg Christian — but I'd read the death entry as describing a "Jungfer" (unmarried woman) and "Tochter" (daughter). Given how uncertain I flagged that section at the time, I think I misread it. The deceased was very likely male: Johann Georg Christian Wasmann, son of Johann Heinrich Wasmann and Sophie Maria Ahrens, born 27 June 1764 in Linse, died 6 July 1785 at age 21.

That also cleans up the confusing "Johann Georg Wasmanns... Johann Heinrich Wasmanns" phrasing from the death entry — it wasn't describing two different men in an unclear relationship to the deceased woman. It was simply naming the deceased himself (Johann Georg [Christian] Wasmann) and his father (Johann Heinrich Wasmann) in the same line, which is exactly the standard format you've seen in every other death entry today.

So, corrected entry for your spreadsheet: Johann Georg Christian Wasmann, b. 27 June 1764, Linse, son of Johann Heinrich Wasmann & Sophie Maria Ahrens; d. 6 July 1785, age 21y 9d, cause as described in the earlier entry (the womb/dropsy-sounding description may also need a second look now that gender is corrected — worth revisiting that phrase with this new information in mind, since a cause I read as reproductive-related wouldn't apply to a man, so I likely misread that too).