Halle Kirchenbuch, Taufen und Trauungen 1707–1740

The record

Archion Register 390645 — Wasmann/Wesemann entries, 24 leaves, with cross-references to 390647

Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-luth. Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Halle, Kirchenbuch (Taufen und Trauungen) 1707–1740, Archion register 390645. Individual leaves cited by Archion Bild number. Burial evidence at the end of the analysis is from Halle, Taufen Konfirmationen Beerdigungen 1741–1765, Archion register 390647.

Bild 106 — 31 October 1727, Halle

Baptism. Wasmann role: godmother, identified by her father’s trade.

German

d\. 31 Octobr. Herbord Reineß(?) zu Halle einen Sohn. Gevattern sind Heinrich Ellerman, Ellermans Sohn zu Halle; it. Charlotta Wasmans, baß(?) Meister Wasmans des Schneiders Tochter; und Jan Christoph, filius naturalis Sophien. Nomen: Heinrich Christoph.

English

On 31 October, to Herbord Reineß(?) of Halle, a son. Godparents: Heinrich Ellermann, son of Ellermann of Halle; likewise Charlotte Wasmann, [namely(?)] the daughter of Master Wasmann the tailor; and Jan Christoph, natural son of Sophie. Name: Heinrich Christoph.

Notes

> Meister Wasmans des Schneiders Tochter is the identification the whole Halle reconstruction hangs on. It names the master tailor’s household four years before its first surviving baptism (Bild 121, 1731) and ten years before Charlotte’s own illegitimate daughter (Bild 148, 1737). > > The connecting word transcribed as baß is not resolved. Read either as an apposition marker or as Base, the Low German for a female cousin; the sense of the phrase is the same either way. > > Charlotte is standing as a godmother in 1727, so born by roughly 1710. That puts her father’s marriage back to about 1705–1709 and makes him a man of at least his mid-forties by 1736. > > The clerk enters an illegitimate godparent, filius naturalis Sophien, without comment. Consistent with Chapter 1’s finding that this parish recorded illegitimacy openly and without penalty.