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Person PER-000610

Catharina Petronella Venter

1779 – 12 December 1799 · Venter line

Connection to the Koup

Took part in something recorded here: Two generations of Venters baptised at Tulbagh on one day (1779~).

Names

Surname
Venter

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Three generations around this person

Petrus Venter 1726 Martha du Plessis 1730
Jan Louis Venter 1754
Jacobus Smith 1716 Catharina van Dyk 1724
Johanna Jacomina Smit 1760
Catharina Petronella Venter 1779

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Immediate family

Father
Jan Louis Venter
Mother
Johanna Jacomina Smit
Brothers and sisters

A life in the record

  1. 1779 born Born
  2. about 1779 event Two generations of Venters baptised at Tulbagh on one day
    Entries 90 and 91 of the Tulbagh register, side by side: Pieter Venter baptises his youngest son Jan Adriaan, and in the next entry stands godparent to his granddaughter Catharina Petronella, Jan Louis's first daughter - uncle and niece at the font together, about the same age. The earliest occasion
  3. about 1779 occasion Baptism at Tulbagh (Roodezand)
  4. 12 December 1799 died Died

Who stood with them

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Others of the same name

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What we don't know

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Sources

  1. Tulbagh register, entries 90 and 91: two generations of Venters at one font, [?1779]Tulbagh (Roodezand) NG - target card supplied: 'CONT FROM ANOTHER ROLL - ROLL NUMBER 88, CAPE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH REGISTERS - PROJECT S.AF 00532', items being TULBACH baptisms G4/7/3 (1813-1824), G4/7/4 (1824-1841), G4/7/5 (1743-1808), G4/7/6 (1770-1790). The opening sits in G4/7/5 or G4/7/6 by year; which is [TO VERIFY]Opening carrying entries 88-108 of one year, closing on the tally '48 zoons en 60 dogters maken tesamen in dit bovengem. jaer'. Year not visible on the crop; [?1779] from the tree's birth year for entry 91's child

Research notes

[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Jan Louis VenterL. Thin record, name, dates and the family link only. NO PLACE IMPORTED: the tree's place strings are systematically wrong and are not evidence.

[24 Aug 2026] Her baptism found: Tulbagh, entry 91 of [?1779] (SRC-583), her GRANDPARENTS Pieter Venter and Martha du PlessisM standing beside Jacobus Smit and Catharina van DykM - baptised the same day as her uncle Jan Adriaan (PER-001916), the two about the same age.

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