Jan Adriaan Venter
14 September 1794 – 23 July 1829 · Venter line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Rondabel (../1829).
- marriage Maria Catharina Venter
- event Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel1829-07-23
Names
- Given
- Jan 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.
Immediate family
- Married
- Maria Catharina Venter
A life in the record
- before 1829 land Held it, Rondabel
- 14 September 1794 born Born
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23 July 1829
event
Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel
Died on Rondavel 'between the hours of 11 and 12 p:m:', field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort, aged 34 - the earliest beyond-doubt record of a household on the Koup Rondabel, four years before Stretch's survey. His widow Maria Catharina (Elisabeth) Venter is the
- 23 July 1829 died Died
Ground they are on record on
- Rondabel held it · before 1829
Stories
- subject Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- subject The farm he was born on
- mentioned The men who drew the lines
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
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- 3 other people 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
- MOOC8/44.48 - Inventory, estate of Jan Adriaan Venter & Maria Catharina Elisabeth Venter, taken at the place Rondavel, Traka, district of Beaufort, 29 Oct 1829Cape Town Archives Repository (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; TANAP transcription (within corpus SRC-128)MOOC8/44.48
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina VenterH (PER-000085). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134] DIED AT THE PLACE RONDAVEL (PAR-000009), 23 Jul 1829, 'between the hours of 11 and 12 p:m:', field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort - MOOC8/44.48, the earliest beyond-doubt household record on the Koup Rondabel. Husband of Maria Catharina (Elisabeth) Venter (PER-000341), ELDER SISTER of Adriana Cecilia VenterM (PER-000002) - so brother-in-law of the root couple. Five heirs born 1819-1827; son Jan Louis born at Wolve Kraal on his father's own birthday (14 Sep 1821). VERNOEMING HYPOTHESIS: first son Willem suggests a father named WILLEM VENTER - tree holds no parents [TO VERIFY, 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.
Open questions
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This district married itself, nine same-surname marriages
priority 2 · LEAD-0041
Nine recorded marriages are between people of the same surname: five Oosthuizen x Oosthuizen, two Venter x Venter, one Marincowitz and one Hitge. How close were these couples actually related?
What would settle it Common ancestors for each pair. scope.build_ancestors() can already compute it once the parentage is in.
Elders
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