Jan Louis Venter

1754 – ? · Venter line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het deelgeneem aan iets wat hier aangeteken is: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West (1837-03-05).

Name

Baptismal name: Jan Louis
Given: Jan Louis
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.

Naaste familie

Father: Petrus Venter
Mother: Martha du Plessis
Married: Johanna Jacomina Smit 27 April 1777
Children: 1779Catharina Petronella Venter

1781Martha Jacoba Venter

1782Martha Jacoba Venter

1783Maria Catharina Venter

1786Jacobus Daniel Venter

1786Petrus Jacobus Venter

1787Maria Magdalena Venter

1789Elisabeth Johanna Venter

1790Jan Louis Venter

1792Adriana Cecilia Venter

1793Hester Engela Elizabeth Venter

1795Johanna Jacomina Venter

1796Johannes Henricus Venter

1799Maria Elizabeth Catharina Venter

1801Francois Alwyn Venter

1803Catharina Petronella Venter

'n Lewe in die rekord

1754 gebore Born
27 April 1777 getroud Married Johanna Jacomina Smit
5 Maart 1837 gebeurtenis Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptised at Beaufort West
Born on Middelwater 27 November 1836, baptised at Beaufort West on 5 March 1837 - a fourteen-week wait, which is what distance did to these families. Both paternal grandparents stood as witnesses, with a Venter and a Strydom for the other two sides. Nineteen years earlier his father had been baptise
5 Maart 1837 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen

Wie by hulle gestaan het

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 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen baptism · 5 Maart 1837
on Middelwater

Stories

mentioned Rondabel Nr. 124: 'n plaasgeskiedenis

Ander van dieselfde naam

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.

Wat ons nie weet nie

Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
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.

Bronne

Baptism, 5 March 1837: Ockert Almero, child of Jan Adriaan Oosthuise and Susanna Catharina Oosthuise, Beaufort West FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing GISA, StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > image 198 of 302; ark 3:1:S3HY-68TW-G3P; cc=1392488, wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701

Navorsingsnotas

[SRC-073] Father of Adriana Cecilia VenterH (PER-000002). Born in the Drakenstein.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134] The 1829 Rondavel estate's debts run to 'Jan Louis VenterL j:r' and 'the widow of Jan Louis VenterL' - but the tree kills his wife Johanna Jacomina SmitH in 1824 (a widower cannot leave a widow), and a Jan Louis witnesses a family baptism in 1837. At least two, probably three men of the name [TO VERIFY, LEAD-0015].

[4 Aug 2026] NO DEATH DATE HELD, BUT HE WAS DEAD BY 1829 AND AN INVENTORY SHOULD EXIST. The 1829 Rondavel estate lists debts to "Jan Louis VenterL j:r" and to "the widow of Jan Louis VenterL" [SRC-134] - so he had died by then, which puts him inside the MOOC8 range (the Orphan Chamber inventory series effectively ends in the 1830s). He is one of the two grandfathers the whole Koup line runs through, and this project holds no estate paper for him at all. ORDER RECOMMENDED, see ARCHIVE-REQUESTS.md 8. A DISCREPANCY THAT ONE INVENTORY WOULD SETTLE, recorded rather than resolved: his wife Johanna Jacomina SmitH (PER-000121) died in 1824, so either he died before her and the 1829 "widow" is a SECOND WIFE, or that estate was still open five years on. Nothing here decides it. [TO VERIFY]

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.

Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.

Oop vrae

Is Venters Kloof named for Adriana Cecilia Venter's family - and did the Oosthuizens follow them to the Koup? prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0027
Venters Kloof No. 168 lies immediately north of Middelwater No. 169, and the root ancestor Ockert Almero OosthuizenL married ADRIANA CECILIA VENTER. Did her family hold that kloof, and is that why the Oosthuizens ended up on the ground next to it?

Wat dit sou uitmaak A Venter named as holder or grantee of No. 168. Equally decisive the other way: a grantee of another surname, which would make the name a fossil of an earlier occupier and kill the family connection.
Two Oosthuizen-Venter marriages in eighteen months, on the Olifants River prioriteit 1 · LEAD-0034
Ockert Almero married Adriana Cecilia VenterH in Oct 1807; by April 1809 his sister Cornelia Petronella was married to Petrus Jacobus VenterH. Were the two Venters siblings, and is this a double alliance between two families about to move east together?

Wat dit sou uitmaak Petrus Jacobus VenterH's parents. If they are Jan Louis VenterL and Johanna Jacomina SmitH, it is a double alliance and the case is made.

Elders

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