Jan Adriaan Venter
No dates recorded · Venter line
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1825, because their mother born 1783, at most 42 at the birth. That rests on an assumption about ordinary childbearing ages, not on a document. It is an upper bound and not a birth year, and nothing in the model records it as one.
Names
- 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.
Three generations around this person
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Immediate family
- Father
- Jan Adriaan Venter
- Mother
- Maria Catharina Venter
- Brothers and sisters
- Married
- Anna Johanna Jacomina Venter
- Children
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 birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
- Nothing dated is recorded about them at all, they are here because another record names them.
- 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.
Research notes
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Anna Johanna Jacomina VenterH, parent of Anna Johanna Jacomina VenterH, spouse of Anna Johanna Jacomina VenterH. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.
[17 Sep 2026] PROBABLE DUPLICATE OF PER-000096 (see there): FamilySearch shows GJCJ-D75 as Jan Adriaan VenterL 1823-1898, son of GZGT-K2S, and PER-000096 is that man under GH17-GFJ.
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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Duplicate candidates from the one-degree pull, settled on FamilySearch ids
priority 2 · LEAD-0035
38 people added on 31 Jul 2026 share a name AND a birth YEAR with somebody already in the model, and 32 share a name with no date at all. Are they the same people?
What would settle it A full birth or baptism date on either side of a pair. Name plus YEAR is not enough here and must not be treated as enough.
Elders
FamilySearch profile GJCJ-D75