Kirchenbuch 1815–1853 — Bild 46 (Linse, written pages 84–85, 1852–1853)

The record

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Linse, Kirchenbuch 1815-1853, Bild 46 (archion.de).

Confirmed negative for the surname. No entry on this page names Wesemann, Waßemann, Wasmann or any variant, in the parents’ columns or in the godparent column on the facing leaf. This is the closing leaf of the births and baptisms section of the volume.

What is on this page

Written page 84 closes 1852 and carries 1853. Written page 85 carries the baptismal names, godparents and remarks. Recurring surnames are Meyer, Freytag, Sagebiel, Eickhoff, Brand and Wegenmann. The section ends below the last entry.

German

[letzter Eintrag, Bemerkungen] Der Vater No. 2 nachgefaßt[?]. Kind ist unehelich. An heutigem Tage ist von dem unterschriebenen Pfarramte darauf Georg Heinrich Lessing in Nordheim[?] die Vaterschaft unter Zustimmung der Mutter für das Kind der Kinder unter No. 2, welche per vorweg matrim. legitimirt ist. (Cf. Linse Kirchenbuch de 1858 pag. 173, 3.)

Halle, 24. Oct. 1858. Schüdekopf.

English

[last entry, remarks column] The father of No. 2 subsequently entered[?]. The child is illegitimate. On this day, before the undersigned parish office, Georg Heinrich Lessing of Nordheim[?] acknowledged paternity, with the mother’s consent, for the child entered under No. 2, which is thereby legitimated by subsequent marriage. (Compare Linse Kirchenbuch of 1858, page 173, entry 3.)

Halle, 24 October 1858. Schüdekopf.

Notes

• The section does not simply stop. It is closed and signed, at Halle, by a named clergyman, five years after the last baptism it records. That matters for register coverage: a signed closing means the section is complete as digitized and that nothing is missing at its end.
• The annotation is the clearest example in this volume of the parish going back into a closed section years later to correct the record, and of it cross-referencing its own pages to do so. The reference Linse Kirchenbuch de 1858 pag. 173, 3 is a working example of the register’s internal page citation, and it points into the volume where the confirmation section is unaccounted for.
• Reading confidence. The date, place and signature are read with confidence. The body of the annotation is dense and partly abbreviated; the personal name, the village and the phrase per vorweg matrim. legitimirt are read at working confidence and should be verified before any of it is cited.