Archion 390700 — Kemnade Kirchenbuch, 1869–1875 — Wesemann/Brand Surname Search

The record

archion.de, churchRegister/390700. Birth/baptism section (Bild 3–31), marriage section (Bild 32–42), death/burial section (Bild 44–51).

14. Bild 36, Entry 4 — Marriage — MAJOR FINDING: LIKELY A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN SIBLING

NEW, then substantially re-graded upward after independent confirmation from the Kirchbrak baptismal register (see the separate Kirchbrak document). Graded working theory, well supported, not yet fully closed on one point (see notes).

German

4\.

Waßemann.

Carl Ludwig Wilhelm (geboren den 4. März 1842 zu Kirchbrak), Junggeselle, Müller zu[r] [Erbenzins-Mühle?] Kemnade, ehelicher Sohn des Müllers Heinrich Christian Ludwig Wesemann und seiner Ehefrau Johanne Wilhelmine Karoline, geborene Brand.

Hengst. [Read 11 October 2026; a blot covers the H, the e and part of the n. Earlier reads: Dorst?; Ernst.]

Johanne Dorothea Louise (geboren den 28. December 1846 in Bodenwerder), Jungfrau in Bodenwerder, eheliche Tochter des [verstorbenen?] Tischlermeisters [Heinrich Friedrich] Ludwig Hengst und seiner noch lebenden Ehefrau Louise, geborene Schmidt. [Re-read 11 October 2026; earlier read: 23. Dezember 1846 zu Oldendorf; Häusler.]

[rechte Spalten]: Den [...] in Kemnade und Bodenwerder — Am vier-/zwanzigsten April / in Bodenwerder. Die erforderlichen Bescheinigungen sind beigebracht. [Re-read 11 October 2026; earlier read: der dreiundzwanzigste April, in Kemnade.]

English

4\.

Waßemann.

Carl Ludwig Wilhelm (born 4 March 1842 at Kirchbrak), bachelor, miller at the [Erbenzins mill?] at Kemnade, legitimate son of the miller Heinrich Christian Ludwig Wesemann and his wife Johanne Wilhelmine Karoline, née Brand.

Hengst. [Read 11 October 2026; earlier reads: possibly Dorst; Ernst.]

Johanne Dorothea Louise (born 28 December 1846 at Bodenwerder), unmarried woman of Bodenwerder, legitimate daughter of the [late?] master joiner [Heinrich Friedrich] Ludwig Hengst and his still-living wife Louise, née Schmidt. [Earlier read: born 23 December 1846 at Oldendorf; cottager.]

[right-hand columns]: Proclaimed [...] at Kemnade and Bodenwerder — married on the twenty-fourth of April, at Bodenwerder. The required certificates were produced. [Earlier read: the 23rd of April, in Kemnade.]

Notes

Independent confirmation from two Kirchbrak baptismal entries (4 March 1842 and 19/20 September 1840 — see the separate Kirchbrak document) and repeated cross-checking of this scribe's handwriting across multiple documents settled it: the maiden name is Brand. Both baptismal entries and this marriage entry name the same couple.* > > With the mother confirmed as Brand — matching Johanne Caroline Wilhelmine Brand, the documented mother of Georg Wilhelm Ehrenfried Wesemann and his known older siblings — no second marriage needs to be invoked. This is a previously unknown sibling set: Wilhelmine Luise Karolina Wesemann (b. 1840) and Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Wesemann (b. 1842), both born at Kirchbrak. A systematic check of Kirchbrak baptisms after 1842 found no further children of this couple. > > The Kirchbrak baptismal entries style the father ‘Müllermeister/Müllerpächter zu Kirchbrak’ — not Thran. This is now understood, not an open puzzle: the family's own established history has him reappearing at Linse in 1852, at his wife's death, recorded as Häusling und Müller zu Linse — landless, but still styled a miller. The Kirchbrak baptisms fill in the previously missing stretch between the Thran tenancy and that 1852 record — he worked as a miller at Kirchbrak in the early 1840s, though the record does not say when he left it. See the separate Kirchbrak document for both entries and full discussion. > > Graded: working theory, well supported by two independently converging documents on the parents' names; not fully closed only insofar as the Kirchbrak birthplace/occupation discrepancy with Thran has not yet been explained.