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Linse, 11th of March, 4 o'clock in the morning, Johann Christoph Wasmann's daughter, Marie Louise, died of convulsions and teething fever, aged 2 years, 9 months.
This is your Marie Louise — the first daughter you found for this couple, born 28 May, baptized in the entry with the "penet." Sunday marking, mother's age given as 28 at the time. She died at just under 3 years old, of convulsions combined with what the entry calls "Zahnfieber" — a period term (not really a modern medical category) for fever attributed to teething, often really masking an underlying infection.
So Johann Christoph Wasmann and Henriette Meyer, like the miller Wesemann family, lost at least one child young — this is worth logging alongside their other children in your spreadsheet as a full record: birth, baptism, and now death, for the same girl.