Maria Petronella Venter

active 1826 · Venter line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Estate inventory of Fredrik Jacobus Botha (1826-02-23).

Names

Baptismal name

Maria Petronella

Given

Maria Petronella

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.

A life in the record

1. 23 February 1826 event Estate inventory of Fredrik Jacobus Botha
   Died intestate 11 Nov 1825.

What we don't know

• No birth date is recorded.
• No death date is recorded.
• Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
• 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. MOOC8/40.55 - Fredrik Jacobus Botha & Maria Petronella Venter, 23 Feb 1826Cape Town Archives RepositoryMOOC8/40.55

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.

What the record is missing

• An estate taken on ground we cannot place second order · B6 loose-doc

  DOC-0034 (MOOC8/40.55, 1826-02-23) lists a household's whole movable estate, which means officials went to where that household lived. It names no place at all. No parcel is attached, so the family it describes sits nowhere on the map.

  What would settle it The inventory's own heading usually names the farm and the field-cornetcy; where it does not, the deceased's quitrent or opgaaf entry for that year will. This is the shape that produced the de Bruin/Rondabel find.

Found by breaks.py reading the model against itself, not written by hand, each one is a shape of missing record, not a fault in the data. The whole set is on the questions page.