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MOOC8/50.47a: Pieter Venter d'oude, 9 April 1789 - the estate behind the Venter trek, and the 1786 godparents decoded

estate inventory · 'n afskrif, indeks of transkripsie · geraadpleeg 2026-08-24

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estate inventory
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Published MOOC8 transcription (TEPC/TANAP series), supplied by as text; the original images at the ark are not yet pulled - layer derivative until they are
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MOOC8/50.47a, Testator(s): Pieter Venter, 9 April 1789, Rhenius
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2026-08-24

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Verbatim as supplied: 'Inventaris mitsg:s taxatie van alle zodanige goederen als ab intestato metter dood zijn ontruijmd ende nagelaten door den landb:r PIETER VENTER D'OUDE ten voordeele van zijne overgeblevene huijsvrouw en wed:e MARTHA DU PLESSIES ter eenree, en hunne by den anderen in huwelyk verwekte AGT KINDEREN, met namen: JAN LOUIS ter andere zijde; Hester getr:d met Jan Louis du Plessies; Magdalena Maria geh:d met Gabriel du Plessies; Petrus Albertus; Maria Elizabeth geh:d met Tjaart van der Walt; Martha Bregje getr:d met Jacob Venter; Johannes Henricus oud 15 en Jan Adriaan Venter oud 10 jaren' - inventoried by 'de meede landbouwers bovengem: TJAART VAN DER WALT en JAN LOUIS VENTER'. Goods: 1 oude wagen 50; 500 schaapen 437:24; 75 beesten in zoort 375; CONTANTEN Rd 2,335; and three enslaved people, recorded here by name as the document names them: GOLIAT VAN MADAGASCAR (125), the boy DAVID VAN MADAGASCAR (120), and RACHEL VAN MADAGASCAR (200). Total Rd 3,642:24. Taken ter Weescamer aan Cabo de Goede Hoop 9 April 1789; commissioners A. d. Waal, Christiaan Loedolff; the widow signs 'Martha Duplesie weduwe Pieter Venter'; clerk J.G. Blanckenberg. | *** THREE THINGS THIS SETTLES. *** (1) THE TREE'S DATE DECODED: PER-000749's death '../1789-04-09' is exactly this inventory's date - dead by the day the Weeskamer taxed him. Pieter/Petrus is one name. (2) THE 1786 GODPARENTS ARE TWO COUPLES FROM THIS LIST: Petrus Jacobus's Paarl godparents (SRC-575, WIT-0357 to 0360) - Tjaart van der Watt, Maria Elisabeth Venter, Jan Louis du Plesie, Hester Venter - are the child's father's TWO SISTERS AND THEIR HUSBANDS, named here as married pairs. The kin-signal of 5's baptism rule, decoded to the person. (3) THE ESTATE IS MOBILE WEALTH: as transcribed, NO opstal, loan place or fixed property appears - one old wagon, 500 sheep, 75 cattle, three enslaved people, and Rd 2,335 IN CASH of a Rd 3,642 total. Ab intestato division gives the widow half and the eight children about Rd 227 each. A son who helped take this inventory came away with a portion in cash and no family ground to keep him - eighteen months later his Paarl baptisms stop, and by 1792 he is in the Sneeuberg. Frans's trigger hypothesis (LEAD-0302) is strongly supported, though 'no land' rests on this transcription being complete - the original images would close that. | Note also the younger brothers JOHANNES HENRICUS (15) and JAN ADRIAAN (10): Jan Louis later gives sons both names, the vernoemingspatroon reaching brothers. And a PETRUS ALBERTUS VENTER married at Colesberg in 1839 beside the family (SRC-577 entry 20) - same name as the brother here, NOT identified, 9. | [24 Aug 2026, later] FS'S SIBLING LIST CROSS-VALIDATES THE EIGHT: FS gives Petrus and Martha TEN children, and the two absent from this inventory are exactly the two FS shows dead by April 1789 - Petronella (1759-1770) and Charel Daniel (1777-1789). The ages check too: Johannes Henricus b 1774 is the 'oud 15', Jan Adriaan b 1779 the 'oud 10'. An inventory and an index agreeing child for child, having never been compared.

Woordeliks gehou. Hierdie projek weerspreek gepubliseerde genealogieë en stel 'n familie se eie mondelinge oorlewering reg, so elke bewering moet nagegaan kan word deur iemand wat nie in die vertrek was nie.

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