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Persoon PER-000589

Petrus Jacobus Venter

19 Maart 1786 – 5 Oktober 1846 · Venter line

Verbinding met die Koup

Het in 'n huishouding op hierdie grond ingetrou: Cornelia Petronella Oosthuizen.

Name

Baptismal name
Petrus Jacobus
Given
Petrus Jacobus
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 Louis Venter
Mother
Johanna Jacomina Smit
Brothers and sisters
Married
Cornelia Petronella Oosthuizen
Children

'n Lewe in die rekord

  1. 19 Maart 1786 gebore Born
  2. 23 April 1809 gebeurtenis The estate at de Modder Fonteyn is inventoried
    MOOC8/28.63. Ockert Oosthuijzen died intestate on the Olifants River leaving eleven children, the youngest two years old. The inventory walks the house room by room and then out to the yard, where it finds an ox wagon, yellowwood planks, WAGONMAKER'S WOOD and a broken chaise - and in the winkel a be
  3. 19 Augustus 1821 gebeurtenis Three Oosthuijzen siblings on one register page
    Not an event so much as a shape the page makes, and it is the kind of thing this project exists to find. On 19 August 1821 the Beaufort West register carries two baptisms back to back: ENTRY 381 - Petrus Jacobus Venter and CORNELIA PETRONELLA OOSTHUIJZEN's son. ENTRY 382 - CORNELIS ANDRIES OOSTHUIJZ
  4. 19 Augustus 1821 getuie Was getuie by 'n baptism of a child · Cornelis Andries Oosthuizen
  5. 5 Oktober 1846 oorlede Died

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.

Wat ons nie weet nie

A sourced gap beats an unsourced fill. These are the open questions on this person, stated rather than papered over.

Bronne

  1. MOOC8/28.63 - Inventory of the estate of Ockert Oosthuijzen, taken at de Modder Fonteyn on the Olifants River, 23 April 1809 Cape Archives (KAB), Master of the Orphan Chamber; transcription published by TANAP / Globalise (Huygens KNAW)MOOC8/28.63, {18090423}
  2. Beaufort West baptisms, August 1821, entries 377–385 (image S3HY-6573-X8X) FamilySearch, "South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011"; citing Genealogiese Instituut van Suid-Afrika, Stellenboschark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6573-X8X; South Africa > Cape > Beaufort West > Baptisms 1819-1844; register entries 377-385

Navorsingsnotas

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

[14 Aug 2026] MERGED PER-000293 into this row. One man, two rows, joined by his wife's age. PER-000293 came off the 1809 estate inventory SRC-092 as 'husband of Cornelia Petronella OosthuizenH, then 17', with no dates at all. PER-000589 came off the private tree as Petrus Jacobus VenterH 1786-1846, whose recorded spouse is PER-000144 Cornelia Petronella OosthuizenH, born 1791 - which makes her 17 going on 18 in 1809, exactly as the inventory says. Same name, same wife, same age at the same date. WHAT THE MERGE IS WORTH: PER-000589's parents are Jan Louis VenterL and Johanna Jacomina SmitM, so this man is ADRIANA CECILIA VENTER'S OWN ELDER BROTHER - and the note on the retired row, that a Venter married an Oosthuizen thirteen years before the root couple's son married Adriana Cecilia, becomes a much stronger statement than it was: it was her brother, not merely someone of her surname. The retired row's claim that he was 'child of Cornelia Petronella OosthuizenH' was a kin_sweep artefact and is wrong; his mother is Johanna Jacomina SmitM. Moved across: given=Petrus Jacobus; doopnaam=Petrus Jacobus; flourished_edtf=1809; living=0.

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