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Halle, 13th of October, Friday, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, died Johann Heinrich Wasmann's — a baker and merchant in Halle — daughter, named Johanne Justine Amalie, of an epidemic [fever/illness] and epilepsy, and was buried on the 17th of the same month, aged 9½ months.

This is a name you already have. Johanne Justine Amalie is the same child from the "5) Halle am 5. Januar" baptismal entry you transcribed earlier — Johann Wasmann, then described as a former day-labourer, and Marie Catharine Wollenweber, with the same daughter's name, born and baptized in early January. If the year lines up, this infant died within the same year she was born, at 9½ months old — consistent with an early-year baptism followed by an autumn death.

Worth noting the father's occupation shift too: earlier entries described him as a Nachtwächter (night watchman) and, before that, a Tagelöhner (day-labourer). Here he's called a Bäcker und Kaufmann — baker and merchant. If this is genuinely the same Johann Heinrich Wasmann, that's a real change in trade across his life, which is worth tracking as its own thread — a man who moved from day labor to night-watch work to eventually running a bakery/shop, unless these are actually two different Johann Heinrichs and the coincidence of names is misleading you. Given how common Johann Heinrich is as a name pairing in this family, I'd flag this as something to verify against dates rather than assume automatically.