Jan Adrian Venter (m. 1839 Colesberg)
No dates recorded
No birth date is recorded for this person. The family puts an outer limit on it: born no later than 1847, because their spouse born 1822, within 25 years. 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.
Immediate family
- Married
- Cornelia Petronella Magdalena Venter 18 August 1839
A life in the record
- 18 August 1839 married Married Cornelia Petronella Magdalena Venter
What we don't know
- No birth date is recorded.
- No death date is recorded.
- Neither parent is recorded, so this person is not attached to the tree above them.
- No dated record ties this person to a specific piece of ground.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Research notes
Thin record: groom of Cornelia Petronella Magdalena VenterH (PER-000875) at Colesberg, 18 Aug 1839 (SRC-577). Father given as 'Jan [?J.] M. Venter'. DELIBERATELY NOT MATCHED to PER-000096, PER-000350 or PER-000519, the model's other Jan Adriaan VenterLs - 9, name alone identifies nobody. No FS id yet - a gap worth closing; the bride's FS page (972R-847) likely names him.
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.