Adriaan van Deventer

active 1817 · van Deventer line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet (1817-06-16).

Names

Baptismal name

Adriaan

Given

Adriaan

Surname

van Deventer

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. 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
2. 16 June 1817 witness Witnessed a baptism · Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen

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 Johannes Adriaan Oosthuizen baptism · 16 June 1817
  dates known, no other trace here

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. 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]

Research notes

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