Willem Venter
17 Mei 1819 – ? · Venter line
Name
- 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.
Naaste familie
- Father
- Jan Adriaan Venter
- Mother
- Maria Catharina Venter
- Brothers and sisters
'n Lewe in die rekord
- 17 Mei 1819 gebore Born
- 7 Oktober 1839 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop
- 25 Desember 1848 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop
- 7 Julie 1850 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop
- 2 Oktober 1859 getuie Was getuie by 'n doop
Wie by hulle gestaan het
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.
- they stood for Willem Venter baptism · 25 Desember 1848
- they stood for Willem Venter baptism · 7 Julie 1850
- they stood for Willem Venter baptism · 2 Oktober 1859
- they stood for Willem Venter baptism · 7 Oktober 1839
Wat ons nie weet nie
- Geen sterfdatum is aangeteken nie.
- Geen gedateerde rekord bind hierdie mens aan 'n bepaalde stuk grond nie.
A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.
Bronne
- 'n Tak van die Swanepoel-familie in Suid-Afrika, 1699 tot 1999: 'n genealogiese en kultuurhistoriese studie Universiteit van Stellenbosch (SUNScholar)MA thesis, Departement Geskiedenis; studieleier Dr M Burden; April 2003; handle 10019.1/53526
- Beaufort West NG Gemeente, Baptisms 1819-1844 (doopregister) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika (GISA), StellenboschSouth Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844 > 302 images. Waypoint wc=M64H-PNL:13850901,13850902,14731201,14762701; cc=1392488. Last image (302 of 302) is ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-68TW-GKL. Held here: 91 distinct page images, filed under their ark suffix in sources/registers/beaufort-west-baptisms-1819-1844/
Navorsingsnotas
[TREE] Added 2026-07-31 by kin_sweep.py under the one-degree rule: child of Jan Adriaan 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.
[3 Aug 2026, SRC-200] STOOD AS A BAPTISM WITNESS at Beaufort West in 1839 (BWB-225-05), in the veldkornetskap Veldcornetschap Mocke. Identified on name + date + tree id, never on the name alone: 22 of 52 unique-name matches from this register were rejected because the person's own dates forbade it. [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.
Die werksnotas op hierdie werf word in Engels gehou en word nie vertaal nie. Hulle verander met elke navorsingsessie, en 'n vertaling sou uit pas raak met die oorspronklike. Alles anders — die stories, die getranskribeerde dokumente en die koppelvlak — is in Afrikaans.
Oop vrae
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Willem Venter and Anna Christina Oosthuizen stood as witnesses together four times over twenty years
prioriteit 2 · LEAD-0087
Who were they, and were they a married couple? Four joint appearances between 1839 and 1859 make them the most active godparent pair in the register.
Wat dit sou uitmaak A marriage entry naming both. Failing that, a baptism where one of them is a parent rather than a witness.
Elders
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