Jan Louis Venter
30 July 1813 – 11 January 1898 · 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
- Petrus Jacobus Venter
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1809Petrus Jacobus Stephanus Venter
- 1811Susanna Catharina Petronella Venter
- 1816Ockert Jacobus Venter
- 1817Johanna Jacoba Maria Venter
- 1819Jacobus Daniël Venter
- 1820Hermanus Carl Andries Venter
- 1822Cornelia Petronella Magdalena Venter
- 1825Catharina Petronella Venter
- 1827Roelof Venter
- 1829Hendricus Johannes Venter
- 1830Johanna Jacomina Susanna Venter
A life in the record
- 30 July 1813 born Born
- 11 January 1898 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 Cornelia Petronella OosthuizenM. 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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