Jan Adriaan Venter

14 September 1794 – 23 July 1829 · Venter line

Connection to the Koup

Held ground in this district: Rondabel (../1829).

marriage Maria Catharina Venter
event Jan Adriaan Venter dies at the place Rondavel1829-07-23

Names

Given: Jan Adriaan
Surname: Venter

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Three generations around this person

Willem Venter (b.1761) 1761

Christina Wilhelmina Coertze (1766-1840) 1766

Jan Adriaan Venter 1794 Maria Catharina Venter 1783

Willem Venter 1819 Jan Louis Venter 1821 Martha Catharina Joachemina Venter 1822~ Christina Wilhelmina Venter 1825~ Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter 1825 Maria Catharina Elizabeth Venter 1827 Jan Adriaan Venter

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Immediate family

Father: Willem Venter (b.1761)
Mother: Christina Wilhelmina Coertze (1766-1840)
Brothers and sisters: Maria Christina Venter (1786-1875), Anna Christina Venter
Married: Maria Catharina Venter
Children: 1819Willem Venter

1821Jan Louis Venter

1822~Martha Catharina Joachemina Venter

1825~Christina Wilhelmina Venter

1825Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina Venter

1827Maria Catharina Elizabeth Venter

·Jan Adriaan Venter

A life in the record

before 1829 land Held it, Rondabel
14 September 1794 born Born
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
23 July 1829 died Died

Ground they are on record on

Rondabel held it · before 1829

Stories

subject Rondawel's history: from a widow's mark to today's Marincowitz farm
subject Jan Adriaan Venter and Wolwekraal
mentioned The men who drew the boundary lines

Others of the same name

Afrikaans naming repeats hard, and the Cape Dutch naming pattern reuses a name on purpose, a child who died young has the name given again to a later sibling. These are different people. Never match on a name alone.

What we don't know

4 other people in this model carry the same name. Never match on a name alone.

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 Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina VenterH (PER-000085). Thin record; dates as in the tree.

30 Jul 2026 [SRC-134] DIED AT THE PLACE RONDAVEL (PAR-000009), 23 Jul 1829, 'between the hours of 11 and 12 p:m:', field cornetcy of Hermanus van der Westhuisen, Traka, district of Beaufort - MOOC8/44.48, the earliest beyond-doubt household record on the Koup Rondabel. Husband of Maria Catharina (Elisabeth) Venter (PER-000341), ELDER SISTER of Adriana Cecilia VenterM (PER-000002) - so brother-in-law of Ockert Almero and Adriana Cecilia. Five heirs born 1819-1827; son Jan Louis born at Wolve Kraal on his father's own birthday (14 Sep 1821). VERNOEMING HYPOTHESIS: first son Willem suggests a father named WILLEM VENTER - tree holds no parents [TO VERIFY, LEAD-0015].

[17 Sep 2026] [FS GZGT-K2S, screenshots from Frans] Parents WILLEM VENTER (MRZ3-9HS, PER-002076) and CHRISTINA WILHELMINA COERTZE (G68D-LVN, PER-002077), married Cape Town 7 Apr 1782, which answers LEAD-0015(a) and agrees with De Villiers. Married Maria Catharina VenterH (L1HM-4JK, PER-000341) at Graaff-Reinet, 9 June 1816 [FS]. Children on FamilySearch: Willem 1819 (972T-NY8, PER-000522), Jan Louis 1821-1906 (L5BB-2QD, PER-000523), Jan Adriaan 1823-1898 (GJCJ-D75), Christina Wilhelmina 1825 (L5B1-J2G, PER-000525), Johanna Jacomina Petronella Catharina 1825-1894 (L5L3-1RV, PER-000085), Maria Catharina Elizabeth 1827-1917 (L5BB-KYR, PER-000526). Martha Catharina Joachemina (PER-000524, M5K8-PSK), a child of his in the tree, is NOT in FamilySearch's list of six.

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Open questions

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 GZGT-K2S