Willem Adriaan Venter
active 1879–1897 · Venter line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) (1897-12-14).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Willem Adriaan
- Given
- Willem Adriaan
- 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
- 14 December 1897 land Held it, Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg)
Ground they are on record on
- Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg) held it · 14 December 1897
Stories
- mentioned The farm he was born on
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.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
[SRC-072] Bought parts of Venterskraal in 1879 and 1894 and Swanepoelsaanleg on 14 Dec 1897.
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.
What the record is missing
-
18 years, and the ground changes hands to nobody we can follow
second order · B1 succession
On Swanepoel's Aanleg (Swanepoelsaanleg), Frederik Hendrik SwanepoelM (b6c5d7e3) is the last owner recorded from 1879-04-22, and the next entry is Willem Adriaan VenterH from 1897-12-14, 18 years later, with no person in common. DOC-0056 records the later arrival but not the 18 years before it.
What would settle it The Deeds Office transfer register for this farm between 1879 and 1897. A transfer names its predecessor in title, so one deed closes the whole gap.
Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand,
each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data.
The whole set is on the
questions page.