Jan Louis Venter
about 1812 – 1856 · Venter line
Names
- 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
- Father
- Jan Louis Venter
- Brothers and sisters
- Dina Magdalena Francina Christina Venter
- Married
- Susanna Johanna Strydom
A life in the record
- about 1812 born Born
- 1856 died Died
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 dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 5 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.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Dina Magdalena OosthuizenL (b.1787). Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
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.
Elders
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