Maria Sophia Venter
active 1817 · Venter line
Connection to the Koup
Took part in something recorded here: Jan Adriaan Oosthuizen baptised at Graaff-Reinet (1817-06-16).
Names
- Baptismal name
- Maria Sophia
- Given
- Maria Sophia
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
[SRC-082] Baptism witness at Graaff-Reinet, 16 June 1817. A Venter, so almost certainly kin of the child's mother Adriana Cecilia VenterM (PER-000002) [TO VERIFY].
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.