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).

• event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Adriana Cecilia Venter1807-10

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.

Immediate family

Father

Jan Louis Venter

Mother

Johanna Jacomina Smit

Brothers and sisters

• 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
• 1793Hester Engela Elizabeth Venter
• 1795Johanna Jacomina Venter
• 1796Johannes Henricus Venter
• 1799Maria Elizabeth Catharina Venter
• 1801Francois Alwyn Venter
• 1803Catharina Petronella Venter

Married

Ockert Almero Oosthuizen October 1807

Children

• 1808Johanna Jacomina Oosthuizen
• 1811Susanna Catharina Oosthuizen (b.1811)
• 1813Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen
• 1816Adriana Cecilia Oosthuizen (b.1816)
• 1816Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen
• 1819Petrus Marthinus Oosthuizen
• 1820Gert Adriaan Oosthuizen
• 1823Jacobus Daniel Johannes Oosthuizen
• 1828Catharina Petronella Oosthuizen
• 1828Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen (b.1828)
• 1830Martha Jacoba Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen
• 1832Dina Magdalena Oosthuizen
• 1839Ockert Almero Oosthuizen (b.1839)
• 1840~Hendrik Johannes Oosthuizen

A life in the record

1. 1792 born Born
2. October 1807 married Married Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
3. October 1807 event Ockert Almero Oosthuizen marries Adriana Cecilia Venter
   [SRC-073] At Swellendam. The root couple of this history. 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 Koup.
4. 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
5. 16 June 1817 occasion Baptism of their child, Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen at Graaff-Reinet
6. 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
7. 5 March 1837 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Almero Oosthuizen
8. 16 February 1840 witness Witnessed a baptism · Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842)
9. 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
10. 9 March 1858 died Died

Who stood with them

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 March 1837
  on Middelwater
• they stood for Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen (1839-1842) baptism · 16 February 1840
  dates known, no other trace here

Stories

• mentioned Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
• mentioned Middelwater No. 169: a farm history
• mentioned The brother-in-law who founded a town
• subject Thirty-two years
• subject Twenty-four months
• mentioned The Oosthuizens of the Koup

What we don't know

• No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

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 [TO VERIFY]
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/

Research notes

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.

Open questions

• Is Venters Kloof named for Adriana Cecilia Venter's family - and did the Oosthuizens follow them to the Koup? priority 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?

  What would settle it 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 priority 1 · LEAD-0034

  Ockert Almero married Adriana Cecilia VenterH in Oct 1807; by April 1809 his sister Cornelia Petronella was married to Petrus Jacobus VenterM. Were the two Venters siblings, and is this a double alliance between two families about to move east together?

  What would settle it Petrus Jacobus VenterM's parents. If they are Jan Louis VenterL and Johanna Jacomina SmitM, it is a double alliance and the case is made.

• Are the two 1839 Ockert Almeros one man, or did the root couple really have two? priority 2 · LEAD-0033

  PER-000133 (FS GVZF-ZHH, b. 8 Jul 1839, baptised 20 Aug 1839) and PER-000364 (FS G6ZT-D65, b. 1839) are both Ockert Almero OosthuizenL and both children of the root couple. Different family-tree records, different FamilySearch ids. One man or two?

  What would settle it The register page. Twins would be entered together, as the 1825 Swellendam page shows.

Elders

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