Johannes Hendrik Venter
active 1841 · Venter line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Wolwekraal No. 17 (1841-04-15).
- event Wolwekraal No. 17 granted to Johannes Hendrik Venter1841-04-15
Names
- Baptismal name
- Johannes Hendrik
- Given
- Johannes Hendrik
- Surname
- Venter
The formal baptismal name and the name a person was actually called are both kept, and neither is derived from the other. Spelling drift between records is evidence, not noise.
A life in the record
- 15 April 1841 land Held it, Wolwekraal No. 17
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15 April 1841
event
Wolwekraal No. 17 granted to Johannes Hendrik Venter
14,502 morgen, about 80 km from Prince Albert on the Rietbron road. AK: Qts Vol 6 Fol 9 - the same deed volume as Varsche Fontein (Bf.W.Q.6-23). THE NINTH FARM ON THE SAME DAY.
- April 1851 witness Witnessed a baptism
Ground they are on record on
- Wolwekraal No. 17 held it · 15 April 1841 to 20 November 1855
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- they stood for Johannes Hendrik Venter baptism · April 1851
Stories
- subject The fifteenth of April, 1841
- mentioned Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- subject The farm he was born on
Others of the same name
Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 1 other person in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526
Research notes
[SRC-072] Granted WOLWEKRAAL NO. 17, 14,502 morgen, on 15 April 1841 - AK: Qts Vol 6 Fol 9.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134 + TREE] PROBABLE IDENTIFICATION [TO VERIFY]: JOHANNES HENRICUS VENTER (, b. 23 Dec 1796 Paarl, d. 19 Mar 1870 PRINCE ALBERT), son of Jan Louis VenterL (PER-000120) x Johanna Jacomina SmitM - brother of both Maria Catharina (PER-000341, the Rondavel widow) and Adriana Cecilia (PER-000002). Supporting: his nephew Jan Louis was BORN AT WOLVE KRAAL in 1821, twenty years before the 1841 grant. Kept unmerged. See LEAD-0015.
These are working notes, not finished prose: they carry the reasoning, the corrections and the things still marked to verify. They are kept here so the page itself can read as what is known.