Maria Catharina Venter
1783 – ? · Venter line
Connection to the Koup
Held ground in this district: Rondabel (../1829).
- marriage Jan Adriaan Venter
- event Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel1829-07-23
Names
- Given
- Maria Catharina
- 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
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- 1779Catharina Petronella Venter
- 1781Martha Jacoba Venter
- 1782Martha Jacoba Venter
- 1786Jacobus Daniel Venter
- 1786Petrus Jacobus Venter
- 1787Maria Magdalena Venter
- 1789Elisabeth Johanna Venter
- 1790Jan Louis Venter
- 1792Adriana Cecilia Venter
- 1793Hester Engela Elizabeth Venter
- 1795Johanna Jacomina Venter
- 1796Johannes Henricus Venter
- 1799Maria Elizabeth Catharina Venter
- 1801Francois Alwyn Venter
- 1803Catharina Petronella Venter
- Married
- Jan Adriaan Venter
A life in the record
- before 1829 land Held it, Rondabel
- 1783 born Born
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23 July 1829
event
Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel
Died on Rondavel 'between the hours of 11 and 12 p:m:', field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort, aged 34 - the earliest beyond-doubt record of a household on the Koup Rondabel, four years before Stretch's survey. His widow Maria Catharina (Elisabeth) Venter is the
Ground they are on record on
- Rondabel held it · before 1829
Stories
- subject Rondabel No. 124: a farm history
- subject The farm he was born on
What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Sources
- MOOC8/44.48 - Inventory, estate of Jan Adriaan Venter & Maria Catharina Elisabeth Venter, taken at the place Rondavel, Traka, district of Beaufort, 29 Oct 1829Cape Town Archives Repository (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; TANAP transcription (within corpus SRC-128)MOOC8/44.48
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: father/mother Jan Adriaan VenterL (PER-000096); father/mother Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina VenterH (PER-000085). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134] THE WIDOW OF MOOC8/44.48: as 'Maria Catharina Elisabeth Venter' she gave her husband's estate inventory ON THE FARM RONDAVEL, 29 Oct 1829, signing with a mark - she could not write. Daughter of Jan Louis VenterL (PER-000120) x Johanna Jacomina SmitM (PER-000121), ELDER SISTER of Adriana Cecilia VenterM (PER-000002). Left with five children aged 2-10; all the estate's debts owed to her own Venter family.
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
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This district married itself, nine same-surname marriages
priority 2 · LEAD-0041
Nine recorded marriages are between people of the same surname: five Oosthuizen x Oosthuizen, two Venter x Venter, one Marincowitz and one Hitge. How close were these couples actually related?
What would settle it Common ancestors for each pair. scope.build_ancestors() can already compute it once the parentage is in.
Elders
FamilySearch profile L1HM-4JK