Maria Elizabeth Catharina Venter
1799 – ? · Venter line
Names
- Surname
- Venter
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Immediate family
- Father
- Jan Louis Venter
- Mother
- Johanna Jacomina Smit
- Brothers and sisters
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- 1779Catharina Petronella Venter
- 1782Martha Jacoba Venter
- 1783Maria Catharina Venter
- 1785~Petrus Jacobus Venter
- 1786Jacobus Daniel Venter
- 1787Maria Magdalena Venter
- 1789Elisabeth Johanna Venter
- 1790Jan Louis Venter
- 1792Adriana Cecilia Venter
- 1793Hester Engela Elizabeth Venter
- 1795Johanna Jacomina Venter
- 1796Johannes Henricus Venter
- 1801Francois Alwyn Venter
- 1803Catharina Petronella Venter
A life in the record
- 1799 born Born
- September 1799 occasion Baptism at Graaff-Reinet
Who stood with them
Who signed at a baptism, a will or a survey is not incidental. It is the clearest surviving record of which families stood close to which.
- stood for them Tjaart van der Walt baptism · September 1799
- stood for them Maria Elisabeth Venter baptism · September 1799
Others of the same name
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What we don't know
- No death date is recorded.
- 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.
Sources
- Graaff-Reinet baptism register, September 1799, pages 116-117: the baptism of Roelof, son of Ockert Oosthuijsen and Susanna Catharina van Tonder, and the same couple standing witnessFamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1994"Film #008121018, ITEM 1 = GRAAFF-REINET, BAPTISM, 1792-1805. Image 82 of 176; the opening carries 'Bladzy 119/120' in the header and '116' and '117' as page numbers against the entries. Month band reads September 1799.
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.
[20 Aug 2026, SRC-515] BAPTISED AT GRAAFF-REINET, September 1799, page 116, 'Maria Elisabeth Catharina', daughter of Jan Louis VenterL and Johanna Jacomina SmitMt, witnesses Tjaart van der Walt and Maria Elisabeth Venter, then Pieter Ernst Krieger and Anna Catharina van Aswegen. ON THE SAME OPENING AS ROELOF OOSTHUIZEN - the two families in one church eight years before her sister Adriana Cecilia married Ockert Almero.
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Elders
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