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Taufen & Beerdigungen 1766–1799 — Bild 205 (Halle, alphabetical name index, written pages 402–403, "T"–"W")
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Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Beerdigungen) 1766-1799, Bild 205 (archion.de). Archion register 390648.
This page is not a baptism or burial entry. It is the register's own alphabetical name index. Only the two surname blocks in the Wesemann/Wasmann range are transcribed; the page also carries Thiele, Voigts/Voges, Vogel, Volmer, Wernis, Warneke, Wehking, Wesel, Wibold, Wollenweber and Wulf. Uncertain readings are marked (?).
German
Wäsemann. Ernestine Charlotte — pag. 93. Georg Ludewig — 124. Ernst Heinrich — 154.
English
Wäsemann. Ernestine Charlotte — page 93. Georg Ludewig — 124. Ernst Heinrich — 154.
Notes
> The surname heading is written Wäsemann, underlined, with three children listed under it. > > Georg Ludewig at page 124 and Ernst Heinrich at page 154 match the two sons of the miller Johann Heinrich Wäßemann and Christine von Kampen already on file. Ernestine Charlotte at page 93 is the third child of that household, whose 1783 smallpox death is recorded at Bild 250 of this register.
German
Wasmann. Johann Friedrich Daniel — p. 135. Johann Heinrich — 37. Rebecca — 67. Heinrich Wilhelm — 83.
English
Wasmann. Johann Friedrich Daniel — page 135. Johann Heinrich — 37. Rebecca — 67. Heinrich Wilhelm — 83.
Notes
> The two blocks are separate index headings in different columns of the leaf, under different spellings, each underlined. An index is a compiled finding aid rather than a clerk's momentary spelling choice while writing a busy entry, which makes this the strongest evidence in the register that the parish itself distinguished Wäsemann from Wasmann. > > That said, the two blocks could equally record how the names were spelled in the entries being indexed rather than a considered ruling by the indexer, and the leaf carries no evidence they were written at one sitting by one hand. Grading: stated that the index separates the two spellings; unproven that the separation was deliberate. > > Rebecca (page 67) and Johann Friedrich Daniel (page 135) are not otherwise documented in this project. > > Register attribution: the Archion breadcrumb on this scan reads Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder \> Halle. Several per-Bild files in this project cite the 1766–1799 register as Linse. The breadcrumb is the authority; those citations need correcting.
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This is the strongest evidence you've had all day. An index isn't a scribe's momentary spelling choice while writing a busy baptismal entry — it's a deliberate, separate finding-aid, compiled with the specific purpose of sorting names correctly so the book could be searched later. Whoever built this index looked at "Wäsemann" and "Wasmann" and put them under two different headings, not two spellings under one. That's about as close to a primary-source ruling as you're going to get.
There’s no proof these were written intentionally different and not just recording how they were logged in the book. They may not even have been recorded at the same time and by the same person. Intentional is speculative.
A few things worth noting for your spreadsheet:
Ernst Heinrich Wäsemann, page 154 — this is your child from entry 30 (Johann Heinrich Wäßemann + Christine Kampen, born 10 Nov, named Johann Ernst — wait, check this: your entry 30 named the child "Ernst Heinrich," and this index also lists "Ernst Heinrich," so that's a direct match, page 154 should be exactly that baptismal entry.
Georg Ludwig, page 124 — matches your entry 26 (George Ludewig, same couple).
Ernestine Charlotte, page 93 — a Wäsemann child you haven't seen yet. Worth tracking down page 93 specifically.