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Person PER-000002

Adriana Cecilia Venter

1792 – 9 March 1858 · Oosthuizen line

Connection to the Koup

Married into a household on this ground: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1807-10).

Names

Baptismal name
Adriana Cecilia
Given
Adriana Cecilia
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.

Three generations around this person

Petrus Venter 1726 Martha du Plessis 1730
Jan Louis Venter 1754
Jacobus Smith 1716 Catharina van Dyk 1724
Johanna Jacomina Smit 1760
Adriana Cecilia Venter 1792 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen m. October 1807
Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen 1808 Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1811) 1811 Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen 1813 Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816) 1816 Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen 1816 Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen 1819 Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen 1820 Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen 1823 Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen 1828 Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828) 1828 Martha Jacoba Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen 1830 Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen 1832 Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839) 1839 Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen 1840~

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Immediate family

Father
Jan Louis Venter
Mother
Johanna Jacomina Smit
Brothers and sisters
Married
Ockert Almero Oosthuizen October 1807
Children

A life in the record

  1. 1792 born Born
  2. 25 November 1792 event Adriana Cecilia Venter baptised at Graaff-Reinet
    Born in the Sneeuberg district about the end of May 1792 (her death notice's age, SRC-580) and baptised at the new Graaff-Reinet church with Smit kin standing - the family's first appearance on Karoo ground. She would marry Ockert Almero Oosthuizen and die at Prince Albert in 1858; the whole Koup st
  3. 25 November 1792 occasion Baptism at Graaff-Reinet
  4. 1792–1799 event The Venters on the Sneeuberg
    Adriana Cecilia is born in the Sneeuwberg district about May 1792, her death notice says so in its own hand, and the family's Graaff-Reinet baptisms of 1792, 1794 and 1799 are the church trail off this ground. A REGION waypoint: the range, not a farm.
  5. October 1807 married Married Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  6. October 1807 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Adriana Cecilia Venter
    [SRC-073] At Swellendam. Ockert Almero Oosthuizen and Adriana Cecilia Venter. Fourteen children over 33 years: the first baptised at Graaff-Reinet in 1809, the seventh at Beaufort West in 1821, the eighth born at Prince Albert in 1823. The baptism registers alone map the family walking west into the
  7. 16 June 1817 event Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet
    Born 20 November 1816, baptised 16 June 1817, with four witnesses in two couples - his uncle Gerrit Adriaan Oosthuijzen with Petronella Schoonman, and Adriaan van Deventer with Maria Sophia Venter. THE LAST TIME THIS FAMILY APPEARS IN THE GRAAFF-REINET ENTRIES GATHERED HERE (the register itself has
  8. 16 June 1817 occasion Baptism of their child, Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen at Graaff-Reinet
  9. 5 March 1837 event 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
  10. 5 March 1837 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
  11. 16 February 1840 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
  12. 9 March 1858 event Adriana Cecilia Venter dies, six days after Meiringspoort opened
    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. A
  13. 9 March 1858 died Died

Who stood with them

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Stories

What we don't know

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Sources

  1. Family Group Record: Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (1787) x Adriana Cecilia Venter (1792) - posted to a genealogy list as "Oosthuizen X Venter"private (email, forwarded to Frans)Johan Jacob Pottas, Bloemfontein, 13 October 2005; compiled from South African Genealogies Vol 07: O-Ph, with KAB MOOC and VAB citations
  2. Baptism, 16 June 1817: Jan Adriaan, child of Ockert Almero Oosthuijzen and Adriana Cicilia Venter FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"index entry ark 1:1:6VBS-163C; register pages 198-199, entries of June 1817; congregation GRAAFF-REINET, confirmed 20 Aug 2026 by the register's own index (see notes) | *** THE REGISTER IMAGE ITSELF, 20 Aug 2026: FamilySearch film #008147799, ITEM 2, 'Graaff-Reinet. Baptism Registers 1815-1822', IMAGE 130 of 275. The page number 199 is written in the top right corner of the leaf. ***
  3. 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
  4. Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
  5. Graaff-Reinet baptism register, 25 November 1792 - Adriana Cicilia, daughter of Jan Louwries Venter and Jacomina SmitCape Archives (KAB), Dutch Reformed Church registers, Graaff-Reinet G6/3/1; filmed as roll 106 of project S-AF 00532Bladz 3, in the column headed "Den 25 November", year 1792 at the head of the opening. Filming target card: ROLL NUMBER 106, CAPE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH REGISTERS - PROJECT S-AF 00532, DETAIL OF ITEM NUMBERS, Item 1: CONGREGATION GRAFF-REINET G6/3/1, RECORD BAPTISM, YEAR 1792-1805. FamilySearch film # 008121018; the bladz 6-7 opening is image 12 of 776. | [24 Aug 2026] PROVENANCE NOW PROVEN BY TARGET CARD: 'ROLL NUMBER 106 - CAPE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH REGISTERS - PROJECT S.AF 00532 - item 1, GRAAFF-REINET G6/3/1, BAPTISM, 1792-1805'. The register id this project inferred from the pages is what the card states.
  6. Kennisgeving van Sterfgeval no. 5024 (43): Adriana Cecilia Venter, filed 27 March 1858 - Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia's wife, and the 1858 half of the project's 1859 boundaryFamilySearch film, image 1023 of 2,166. VERY LIKELY THE SAME FILM AS SRC-077 (007844939, Cape Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1822-1990), whose husband-notice sits at image 1888 OF THE SAME 2,166 - the identical image count is hard to read any other way, but the target card has not been seen for this pull, so the film number is [TO VERIFY]. SRC-077's caution transfers: FS attributes that film to Pietermaritzburg; the records are CAPE, order originals from KAB.No. 5024 (43), filed 27 March 1858

Research notes

root ancestor (wife) [SRC-073] Born in the Sneeuberg district, baptised 25 Nov 1792; daughter of Jan Louis VenterL (PER-000120) and Johanna Jacomina SmitM (PER-000121). Died at Prince Albert 9 Mar 1858 - KAB: MOOC 6/9/81.5024.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134] Her elder sister Maria Catharina's household held RONDABEL by 1829 (MOOC8/44.48): Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia's own family on the farm next to Middelwater, a decade before the 1833 survey and four decades before the 1868 Oosthuizen grant of the same farm.

[20 Aug 2026, SRC-515] HER FAMILY AND HER FUTURE HUSBAND'S WERE IN THE SAME CHURCH IN SEPTEMBER 1799. Her sister Maria Elisabeth Catharina (PER-000618) was baptised at Graaff-Reinet on the same opening as Ockert Almero's brother Roelof (PER-000147), and her parents stood as witnesses elsewhere on it. She was seven; he was thirteen; they married in October 1807. This does not establish that the families were neighbours - a church draws from a wide country - but it is the earliest point at which the two are documented in one place.

[24 Aug 2026] FS's index title for her death notice reads 'Death Notice Adriana Cecelia Venter 9Mar1858 Prins Albert (65Y9M11D)'. The age back-computes to a birth about the end of May 1792 - six months before her Graaff-Reinet baptism of 25 Nov 1792 (SRC-555), consistent with the Sneeuberg birth. Index-title data; the notice itself is not yet held. [TO VERIFY]

[24 Aug 2026] HER DEATH NOTICE IS NOW HELD AND TRANSCRIBED - SRC-580, no. 5024 (43), filed 27 March 1858. It gives Sneeuwberg as birthplace, her parents, thirteen children all of age, and 65j 9m 11d at death on 9 March 1858 at Prins Albert - born about the end of May 1792, which sits six months before her Graaff-Reinet baptism. The derived birth stays out of the date field per 3.

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Open questions

Elders

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