Petrus Jacobus Venter baptised at Paarl

19 March 1786 · family · Drakenstein

Baptised at the family's own church with his father's two sisters and their husbands standing - Tjaart van der Walt with Maria Elizabeth Venter, Jan Louis du Plessis with Hester Venter (the couples MOOC8/50.47a names, SRC-581). The register writes no birth date; he was born about 1785.

Who was there: 3 people

• 1754 Jan Louis Venter
• 1760 Johanna Jacomina Smit
• 1785~ Petrus Jacobus Venter

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

• Baptism of Petrus Jacobus Venter, 19 March 1786 - and the register writes no birth date Register opening paginated 6-7, second entry on page 6