Christina Wilhelmina Venter
1855 – 3 July 1943 · Venter line
Names
- Given
- Christina Wilhelmina
- 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 Adriaan Venter
- Mother
- Anna Johanna Jacomina Venter
- Brothers and sisters
- Children
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- 1878Anna Johanna Jacomina Bekker
- 1880Maria Magdalena Bekker
- 1881Christina Wilhelmina Bekker
- 1884~Johannes Stephanus Bekker
- 1886~Johanna Jacomina Bekker
- 1888~Ignasina Johanna Maria Bekker
- 1890~Martha Jacoba Bekker
- 1892~Hester Elizabeth Bekker
- 1894~Jan Adriaan Bekker
- 1896~Petronella Cornelia Bekker
- 1897~Cornelis Tobias Bekker
A life in the record
- 1855 born Born
- 3 July 1943 died Died
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
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- 1 other person 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.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 29 Jul 2026 under the people-related-to-the-land rule: child Jan Adriaan VenterL (PER-000096). Thin record; dates as in the tree.
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.
Elders
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