Willem Venter (b.1761)
1761 – ? · historical
Names
- Baptismal name
- Willem
- Given
- Willem
- 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
- Christina Wilhelmina Coertze (1766-1840) 7 April 1782
- Children
A life in the record
- 1761 born Born
- 7 April 1782 married Married Christina Wilhelmina Coertze (1766-1840)
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 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.
- 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
[17 Sep 2026] [FS MRZ3-9HS, screenshots supplied by Frans] Father of Jan Adriaan VenterL of Rondavel (PER-000350, GZGT-K2S), which LEAD-0015 asked for. Married Christina Wilhelmina CoertzeH (G68D-LVN) at Cape Town, 7 April 1782 [FS]. De Villiers (SRC-656, Deel 3, VENTER) agrees: 'Willem, gedoopt 23 Augustus 1761, burger te Stellenbosch, gehuwd 7 April 1782 met Christina Wilhelmina Goertse'. Children on FamilySearch: Jan Adriaan 1784 (GJX9-JGY), Maria Christina 1785-1875 (LHV6-M8T), Wilhelmina Catharina 1786 (LHV6-M3F), Roelof Hendrik 1790 (LCTM-PXY), Hester Elisabeth 1792-1862 (LHV6-MF7), Jan Adriaan 1794-1829 (GZGT-K2S), Catharina Jacomina Koekemoer 1795 (L5YD-PX2), Anna Christina 1798-1880 (L7FW-QRG), Willem 1800-1835 (972T-NTB), Cornelia Petronella 1802-1878 (P3FN-5BD). MARIA CHRISTINA is, on De Villiers, the wife of Christiaan HattingM: the 'Christiaan HattingM d'oude en Maria Christina VenterH' of the Beaufort roll of 1822 [TO VERIFY].
[17 Sep 2026] MOOC8 SEARCH (published volumes): NO ESTATE OF HIS IS TRANSCRIBED, before or after 1802. He appears as a living man: (1) MOOC8/46.28, estate of Tobias Christian Rönnenkamp, taken 16 May 1793: 'Willem VenterL ADRIAANSZOON over een vendubrief d:d: 15 Jannuarij 1793', Rd 7:12 - the patronymic agrees with De Villiers' father Jan Adriaan; (2) MOOC8/50.62b, 1790: 'Willem VenterL' signs as surety; (3) MOOC8/55.31a, estate of Barend Lindeque, 27 January 1804: owed 'van Willem VenterL over aan hem geleverde planken', Rd 175 - a Willem VenterL alive and trading in timber in 1804 [the same man TO VERIFY]. A POSSIBLE LATER TRACE, NOT ASSERTED: MOOC8/75.11, the return of wills produced to the Orphan Chamber agent at Graaff-Reinet, July-September 1830, lists the mutual will of 'the late Gerbregt Elisabeth Potgieter and surviving husband WILLEM ADRIAAN VENTER' made before seven witnesses on 15 May 1829. His daughter's death notice calls him 'W.A. Venter' (SRC-660), so the initials fit; but FamilySearch has his wife Christina Wilhelmina CoertzeH living until 1840, which a second wife dead by 1830 contradicts. Either a second marriage FamilySearch lacks, or another Willem Adriaan VenterM [TO VERIFY].
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
FamilySearch profile MRZ3-9HS