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Welcome to Venter.ws
This page is dedicated to all Venters of South Africa. With only one Venter, Heinrich Venter, that came to South Africa , all the Venters are family. By now a huge lot and spread very widely.
Web Page News.
 (19-04-2010) Latest Venter blog: Blog 16-10(99KB)
(18-04-2010) New: A Venter communication web page. Come and give your insights or just chat.
(18-04-2010) Web page visits are now at 4300 since March 2009.
(19-09-2009) Certificate(805KB) of registration of Venter Family Association's crest. The crest part of the certificate alone(445KB).
(16-09-2009) Summary(96KB) of first 10 Venter blogs.
(16-09-2009) Piet Venter's paper(164KB) titled FDAS’s* re an SA progenitor and his ancestors (*‘facts, deductions, assumptions and speculation’) is now available on the Family Tree page.
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Origin and meaning of Venter
With regards to the origin of the surname Venter, it seems there isn't absolute clarity.
- The origin I like the best is the explanation that venter means "soldier on foot". At some stage in history, various surnames got their origin from war terms. This origin for Venter also led to the word infantry.
- Venter can also mean hawker or street merchant, as the English 'vendor' or 'vender'.
- There is a city in the Netherlands named Deventer which could also have some relationship with the origin of the surname.
- In South Africa it is also getting quite common practice to refer to a trailor as a venter, like the word cutex is used instead of nail polish, where it is actually only a certain brand of polish or then trailor.
- A Venter can also be someone who is busy giving his or her opinion or a speaker. It is from the English 'vent' - to speak/ let out.
- In Zoology, venter roughly means the stomach area of an animal or organism.
- In Law Science venter is used to refer to an unborn child. The child is 'in venter'.
Surnames possibly related to Venter
- Deventer
- Van Deventer
- Ventre
- Venters
- Ventura
- Fenter
- Bonaventura
Venters in other countries
- There is still a reasonable group of Venters in Germany, where the SA primary ancestor came from.
- America has a lot of Venters.
- Argentinia has Venters who moved there from South Africa early in the previous century???
- These days so many families, including Venter families, have a son in Australia, a daughter in Saudi Arabia and another son in Engeland or Canada or, or,... So the Venters of South Africa are spreading further and further.
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Well known SA Venters
André Venter AJ Venter
Brendan Venter Riaan Venter(Mr DIY)
FA Venter(Offerland etc.) Edith Venter
Eben Venter(Horrelpoot etc.) Kosie Venter
Paul C Venter(Arende e.a.)
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