Adriana Cecilia Venter dies, six days after Meiringspoort opened
9 March 1858 · family
Her death date has been on her person row since the beginning and there was no EVENT row for it, so the site's timeline carried her husband's death (EVT-000133, eleven and a half months later) and not hers. The matriarch of the whole Karoo line was missing from the chronology the site is built on. Added 6 Aug 2026 while writing S027 and S023. She was 66, married at fifteen in 1807, and had fourteen children between 1808 and about 1840. The proximity to the opening of Meiringspoort on 3 March 1858 is real on the model's own dates, though that opening date itself rests on a tertiary account - LEAD-0107.
Who is on record here
Everyone the record names at this occasion. Who stood together is the clearest surviving evidence of which families were close to which, if you know of others who were here, this is the page they belong on.
Sources
- Family Group Record: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1787) x Adriana Cecilia Venter (1792) - posted to a genealogy list as "Oosthuizen X Venter" Johan Jacob Pottas, Bloemfontein, 13 October 2005; compiled from South African Genealogies Vol 07: O-Ph, with KAB MOOC and VAB citations
Told in
- evidence Twenty-four months