Kirchenbuch 1815–1853 — Bild 53 (Linse, Marriages, 1832, No. 1)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Linse, Kirchenbuch 1815-1853, Bild 53 (archion.de).

Read from the full leaf. Two earlier versions of this file disagreed with each other, one reporting a Wasemann marriage here and one denying that any Wesemann name appears on the page. The first was right. The second was working from a cropped download that cut off the groom column. Both are superseded by what follows, which is read from the complete entry.

UPDATED. An earlier version of this file read the bride’s mother’s maiden name as Thonlader or Thonlacker and marked it unresolved. It is Sporleder, established from the bride’s own baptism of 1809 (Archion Bild 96) and confirmed by her death entry of 1852 (Archion Bild 81). Thonlader and Thonlacker are withdrawn from this project entirely; searches were run on both forms and returned nothing, which was a null on a misreading rather than a fact about the family.

The block is the marriage register, not a confirmations list. It runs 1830 — vacat, 1831 — vacat, 1832 — and then this entry, numbered 1.

German

Waßemann Heinrich Christian Ludewig, ehelicher Sohn des Masch[inen]müllermeisters Georg Ludewig Waßemann in Linse u. der Marie Justine geb: Küster, angehender Maschinenmühlenmeister u. Pächter der Thran: Mühle bey Linse, u. daselbst wohnhaft.

Johanne Caroline Wilhelmine Brand, eheliche Tochter des Halbmeyers Heinrich Christian Brand u. der Caroline geb: [Sporleder] in Linse.

Acht[e] Ju[li] u. Fünfzehnte Juli. — Halle.

English

Waßemann, Heinrich Christian Ludewig, legitimate son of the master machine-miller Georg Ludewig Waßemann of Linse and of Marie Justine née Küster; incoming master machine-miller and tenant of the Thran mill near Linse, and resident there.

Johanne Caroline Wilhelmine Brand, legitimate daughter of the half-farmer Heinrich Christian Brand and of Caroline née Sporleder, of Linse.

Proclaimed the eighth and the fifteenth of July. At Halle. The marriage followed on 16 July 1832.

What this entry settles

• The bride’s surname is Brand. It is written twice in the same entry, in the same hand. It matches the two Brand sons entered as Halbmeyers Söhne at Linse on Bild 27 six years later, her own baptism of 1809, and her death entry of 1852, which gives geborene Brand. The six competing readings — Krause, Ernst, Kramer, Krasner, Traube, Conrad — are all superseded. The Krause reading, which the research has carried as settled in more than one place, is wrong.
• Her father is named: the Halbmeier Heinrich Christian Brand of Linse. Her mother is Caroline Charlotte Sporleder, born about 1783, who was 26 when this daughter was born in July 1809.
• The Thran mill is in the register, in 1832, in words. Angehender Maschinenmühlenmeister u. Pächter der Thran-Mühle bey Linse, u. daselbst wohnhaft. Heinrich Christian Ludewig held the Thran mill as tenant and lived there from the year of his marriage. The inference that carried the parentage argument — that a Wesemann miller was seated at Thran in the years around George’s birth there in 1838 — is no longer an inference.
• The groom is named in full and tied to his parents in one line: legitimate son of Georg Ludewig Waßemann of Linse and Marie Justine née Küster. Three generations of the direct line stand in a single sentence.

Notes

• The mother’s forenames are given here as Marie Justine, in that order. The register now stands at: 1803 marriage, Justine Marie; 1832 marriage, Marie Justine; 1846 marriage, Anna Marie; 1861 death, Justine Marie. The project’s baseline of Justine Marie still holds on a two-to-one count of the ordered forms, but the 1832 entry belongs in the footnote alongside 1846.
• The Sporleder reading resolves a conflict rather than creating one. An earlier version of this file flagged a Heinrich Christian Brand documented at Linse in 1812 with a wife named Caroline Sporleder, against the Caroline née Thonlader read here, and warned against merging the households. There was only ever one household. The 1812 and 1832 entries name the same couple.
• The bride and the 1846 Brand groom are brother and sister. Caroline Charlotte Sporleder, aged 26 in July 1809, is the same woman as the Marie Caroline Charlotte née Sporleder who died in 1847 as the mother of the 1846 groom. So the Wesemann and Brand families did not intermarry twice by coincidence: a Brand daughter married a Wesemann son in 1832, and fourteen years later a Brand son married a Wesemann daughter. One alliance between a milling house and a half-farming house in the same village, running in both directions.
• The Linse Brands are Halbmeier, not the Halle Brands. A substantial Brand family of Vollmeier and innkeepers is documented at Halle across two centuries. Different rank, different village, and nothing yet links the two. Do not draw on the Halle material for this family.
• Reading confidence. Waßemann, Heinrich Christian Ludewig, Georg Ludewig Waßemann, Marie Justine geb: Küster, Brand (both instances), Halbmeyers, Heinrich Christian Brand, Maschinenmühlenmeister, Pächter, Thran-Mühle and the two July proclamation dates are all read with confidence. The bride’s mother’s maiden name on this leaf is still not legible enough to transcribe from the ink alone; it is supplied in square brackets from the 1809 baptism, where it is written plainly, and should be cited to that entry rather than to this one.

Entry 1, Year 1832:\\

• Groom:\\ "Wasemann, Ludewig" — Junggesell (bachelor), legitimate son ["ehelich erzeugter Sohn"] of the Maschinenmüller(meister) Georg Ludewig Wasemann [residing in/near Linse — exact village name not fully resolved at this zoom, possibly "Bevern" or similar].
• Bride:\\ "Johanne Carolina," legitimate daughter of a Vollmeier/farmer household in Linse; her precise maiden surname did not resolve cleanly even at this improved zoom (something like "[Speidhoff]" or a similarly-shaped name) — flagging as still not citation-ready.
• Proclamation/Copulation:\\ "Sonntag" in "Juli," location given as "Halle" (the neighboring filial parish previously suspected in this volume's bundled structure) for at least one of the two dates.

This upgrades the earlier low-confidence transcription from the out-of-sequence detour: the groom's surname reads clearly as Wasemann (not "Waßemann"), and the connection to a Maschinenmüller father named Georg Ludewig Wasemann is now legible directly from the marriage entry itself, not just inferred. The bride's given name "Johanne Carolina" is now firm; her surname remains unresolved. This record was already downloaded as a PDF (Bild 53, Querformat) during the earlier detour — no need to re-download.

OUT-OF-SEQUENCE DETOUR: 1832 Wesemann marriage located and downloaded (Priority 11 named target)

At your request, I jumped ahead to locate and download the 1832 marriage of Ludewig Wa(ß/s)emann — the same man documented as father on Image 19 (birth of Wilhelmine, 4 Oct 1832) and as a Maschinenmüller godfather on Image 20. This is a genuine find and matches the specific "1832 Wesemann marriage" target named in the brief.\\

Register structure note (important, not previously documented):\\ this digitized volume is not one continuous births→marriages→deaths sequence by simple page order. It bundles multiple separately-paginated registers: a births register (images 4–~48, written pages 2–~85, which is what this file has been reading cover-to-cover), then apparently another births-style register restarting its own page numbering (spotted around image 50, page "4," year 1816 — not yet investigated, possibly a filial parish register, e.g. Halle), a marriages register ("III. Verzeichniß der Proclamirten und Copulirten," starting around image 52–53 with pages in the 130s), and at least one deaths register ("IV. Verzeichniß der Verstorbenen und Begrabenen," found at images 60 and 63 with page numbers that didn't fully reconcile with each other on a quick check — there may be more than one deaths register bound in as well). This means the "written page 130–156 marriages / 160–195 deaths" estimates in the original brief don't line up cleanly with a single page-numbering scheme — the actual marriages register runs roughly pages 130ish through at least 145 that I've seen, and deaths start somewhere in the 138–160 range depending on which sub-register. This needs a dedicated mapping pass later (Task 3 in the task list) rather than trusting a simple page-to-image ratio.

The 1832 marriage entry — Image 53, written page ~138 (left leaf; pre-printed header for this leaf reads "1837" but the clerk used the same page for the earlier vacant years 1830 ["vacat"], 1831 ["vacat"], and 1832, writing the correct year by hand before each block — a real quirk of this register, not a misreading).\\

Entry No. 1, year 1832:

Groom's column: "Wa(ß/s)emann, [Ludewig?]" — reading is difficult at this resolution; the surname is clearly a Wesemann variant, and the entry appears to identify him as the son of Georg Ludewig Wasemann and [Justine Marie Küster]\\ (matching the family already documented from Image 6) — "ehl. Sohn" (legitimate son) language is present. If this reading holds, it identifies which of Georg Ludewig's sons this is, relevant to the "vanished sons" question in Priority 7.

Bride's column: partially resolved — a "Carolina, geb. [surname illegible]" appears, consistent with the "Caroline" named as mother on the Image 19 birth record.

Dates: both proclamation and copulation appear to read "Juli" (July) 1832.

Flagging honestly: this entry was hard to read at the available scan resolution, and I would not treat my transcription above as reliable without a second pass at full resolution or from the downloaded PDF itself.\\ The full page has been downloaded (Bild 53, Querformat PDF, via Archion's download feature) so you have the source image directly — I'd recommend reading it yourself or having me re-attempt with a cleaner crop if the names matter for the write-up.

Also downloaded per your follow-up request:\\ the 1832 baptism record for the same couple — Image 19, written page 30, Entry No. 10 (already transcribed in this file above: Ludewig Wa(ß/s)emann, Maschinenmüllermeister, and Caroline [Traube?], daughter Wilhelmine, b. 4 Oct 1832, bapt. 5 Oct 1832). Downloaded as Hochformat PDF.

Both PDFs are in your Chrome Downloads folder now.

Resuming the cover-to-cover read at Image 26, continuing from where the sequential pass left off before this detour.