Notes:
Durban - a short history
In 1822 Lieutenant James King, captain of the ship Salisbury, together with Lt. Francis George Farewell, both ex-Royal Navy officers from the Napoleonic Wars, were engaged in trade between the Cape and Delagoa Bay. On a return trip to the Cape in 1823 they were caught in a very bad storm and decided to risk the Bar and anchor in the Bay of Natal. The crossing went off well and they found safe anchor from the storm. Lt. King decided to map the Bay and named the "Salisbury and Farewell Islands". In 1824 Lt. Farewell together with a trading company called J.R.Thompson & Co. decided to open trade relations with Shaka the Zulu King and establish a trading station at the Bay. Henry Francis Fynn, another trader at Delagoa Bay was also involved in this venture. Fynn left Delagoa Bay and sailed for The Bay of Natal on the brig Julia while Farewell followed six weeks later on the Antelope. Between them they had 26 possible settlers, but only 18 stayed. On a visit to King Shaka, Henry Francis Fynn was able to befriend the King by helping him recover from a stab wound suffered as a result of an assassination attempt by one of his half-brothers. As a token of Shaka’s gratitude, he granted Fynn a “25-mile strip of coast a hundred miles in depth.” On 7 August 1824 they concluded negotiations with King Shaka for a cession of land, including the Bay of Natal and land extending ten miles south of the Bay, twenty-five miles north of the Bay and one hundred miles inland. Farewell took possession of this grant and raised the Union Jack with a Royal Salute, which consisted of 4 cannon shots and twenty musket shots. Of the original 18 would be settlers, only 6 remained, and they can be regarded as the founding members of Port Natal as a British colony. These 6 were joined by Lt. James Saunders King and Nathaniel Isaacs in 1825.
The modern city of Durban thus dates from 1824 when the settlement was established on the northern shores of the bay near today's Farewell Square.
During a meeting of 35 European residents in Fynn's territory on 23 June 1835, it was decided to build a capital town and name it "d'Urban" after Sir Benjamin d'Urban, then governor of the Cape Colony.
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51 | Forrest, Ellen Isabella | 18 Jan 1865 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I144899 |
52 | Leech, Joe | 12 May 1865 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143764 |
53 | Cato, Frances Elizabeth | 12 Jul 1865 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130315 |
54 | Dorkin, Richard James Bernard | 18 Mar 1866 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I117484 |
55 | Griffin, Letitia Elizabeth | 8 Jun 1866 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I178700 |
56 | Chapman, Alice Jex | 24 Sep 1866 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166444 |
57 | Airth, George Rennie | 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130395 |
58 | Leech, Thomas Spencer | 8 Feb 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165459 |
59 | Wade, Rhoda Martha | Jan 1869 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23954 |
60 | Raw, Constance Fanny Mary | 8 Aug 1869 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15404 |
61 | Pike, Annie Sarah | 7 Dec 1869 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164809 |
62 | Forrest, Albert James | 31 Mar 1871 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162752 |
63 | Ridsdale, Alfred | Abt 1872 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143675 |
64 | Cook, Margaret Elizabeth | 21 Mar 1872 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166418 |
65 | Nicolai, Frank Arthur | 19 Apr 1872 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103896 |
66 | Forrest, Ernest Arthur Lloyd | 7 Oct 1873 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162751 |
67 | Cato, George Porter | 1874 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130335 |
68 | Stuart, Mary Burgess | 7 Apr 1874 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78448 |
69 | Pithey, Alice May Beatrice | Abt 1876 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I149997 |
70 | Tainton, Margaret Elizabeth Blanche | 7 Apr 1876 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58795 |
71 | Cato, Spensley | 1877 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130338 |
72 | Shepstone, Lulie Alice | Est 1877 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58848 |
73 | Milne, Florence Hope | 15 Nov 1880 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157409 |
74 | Loose, Edith Elizabeth | Cal 1881 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157675 |
75 | Turner, Frederick | 4 Feb 1881 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I163067 |
76 | Heathcote, Emma Katherine | Aug 1881 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74150 |
77 | Loose, Caroline | Cal 1882 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157670 |
78 | Cook, Beatrice Naomi | 19 Jun 1882 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166406 |
79 | Young, George William | 18 Sep 1882 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I5827 |
80 | Gadsden, Faith Vivian | 27 Feb 1883 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54710 |
81 | Pittaway, Mary Emily Smith | 6 Nov 1883 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158099 |
82 | Ennion, Ethel Frances | 5 Jan 1884 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143775 |
83 | Blakey, Ada Sarah | 7 Mar 1884 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130403 |
84 | Newberry, Ernest Edgar | 10 Apr 1884 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I56847 |
85 | Shepstone, Dorothy Vera | 25 Jun 1886 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58633 |
86 | Evans, Enid Norah Joan | Abt 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15201 |
87 | Shepstone, Denis Gem (Hon) | 7 Feb 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58734 |
88 | Holden, Ernest Gordon | 2 Mar 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12090 |
89 | Scott, Violet | 16 Aug 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169283 |
90 | Scott, Symon Buller | 19 Nov 1889 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169292 |
91 | Comrie, Ethel Hepburn | 6 Jan 1890 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54723 |
92 | Scott, Lucretia | Abt 1891 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169282 |
93 | Lovemore, Marjorie Mary Baillie | 12 Apr 1892 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15405 |
94 | Scott, Ruby | 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169281 |
95 | Cowey, Harry Ingram | 8 Jun 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I2242 |
96 | Allen, Frederick Charles | 8 Sep 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70661 |
97 | Moore, Doris | 13 Sep 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130317 |
98 | Sinclair, Dorothy Lovell | Abt 1895 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152760 |
99 | Scott, Ethel | 15 Jul 1895 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169284 |
100 | Brittain, Samuel James | 1896 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12345 |
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51 | Cato, George Joseph | 5 Sep 1877 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130313 |
52 | Towning, Frederick Thomas | 12 Jan 1879 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I89554 |
53 | Greene, Agnes Edith | 23 Feb 1879 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23911 |
54 | Forrest, John | 21 Jul 1881 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113885 |
55 | Kennedy, Andrew Brown | 5 Dec 1881 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74716 |
56 | Daniell, Rice Henry | 10 Apr 1884 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125429 |
57 | Griffin, Elizabeth 1820 Settler | 22 Apr 1886 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132667 |
58 | King, Elizabeth 1820 Settler | 1887 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23859 |
59 | Forrest, Catherine | 24 Jun 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I144897 |
60 | Cadle, Harriet Catherine | 8 Jun 1891 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113870 |
61 | Richards, Kate | 1892 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130307 |
62 | Brickhill, James Alexander | 27 Nov 1892 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I144745 |
63 | Cato, George Christopher | 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132680 |
64 | Leech, William | 7 Jan 1896 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165457 |
65 | Reed, George Thomas | 15 Apr 1897 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78908 |
66 | Crossley, Kendall | 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I82612 |
67 | Forrest, James Pringle | 5 Jan 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I144896 |
68 | Amm, Mary | 16 Sep 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177558 |
69 | Cato, Sarah Frances | 26 Sep 1901 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39771 |
70 | Pike, Joseph | 14 Jan 1902 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143668 |
71 | Greene, Thomas | 21 Mar 1903 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23898 |
72 | Williams, Henry Murray Chawner | 7 Sep 1903 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3816 |
73 | Morris, Eliza | Feb 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23901 |
74 | Chapman, John Jex | 3 Nov 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I136201 |
75 | Cato, Frances Elizabeth | 9 Jun 1905 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130315 |
76 | Griffin, Sarah 1820 Settler | 28 Sep 1907 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132665 |
77 | Forrest, Joseph Alexander | 13 Nov 1907 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174707 |
78 | Cook, Nicholas Thomas John | 22 Jun 1908 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I136207 |
79 | Landskroon Spruit, Jan Willem | 8 Sep 1908 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174848 |
80 | Richards, Harry | 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130308 |
81 | Crooks, Tebbutt Hill | 24 Aug 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I127389 |
82 | Stone, Alexander Blackwood | 23 Jul 1910 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14439 |
83 | Hamlin, Frederick Pitt | 29 Apr 1911 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I25608 |
84 | Cato, Orlando William | 14 Jun 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I160366 |
85 | Putterill, Thomas Oliver | 31 Jul 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I161795 |
86 | Solomon, Laurie Miriam | 31 Jul 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I56866 |
87 | Ogilvie, Flora Alfrida | 26 Feb 1913 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15194 |
88 | Botha, Louisa Johanna Emilia | 25 Aug 1913 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14546 |
89 | Philipps, Temple Scott | 1914 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74146 |
90 | Hamlin, Trevor | 20 May 1915 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26730 |
91 | Kirkman, Alfred Newton | 14 Nov 1915 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168171 |
92 | Welch, Mary | 24 Jul 1916 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I146584 |
93 | Field, Joseph James | 11 Sep 1916 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164820 |
94 | Keightley, William Henry | 28 Jan 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115701 |
95 | Penny, Aubrey | 23 Feb 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I72868 |
96 | Forrest, John | 12 Jul 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174706 |
97 | Landsdell, George | 24 Aug 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23963 |
98 | Shepstone, Henrique Charles | 17 Oct 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58625 |
99 | Tucker, Edward George Curlewis | 25 Dec 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I11228 |
100 | Hamlin, Guy Herbert | 18 Sep 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26732 |
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Family | Marriage | Family ID | ||
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51 | Cawood / Stoward | 8 May 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F15785 |
52 | Ridsdale / Pike | 19 Sep 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F51344 |
53 | McAllister / Impey | 16 Oct 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F47057 |
54 | Zeeman / Scott | 24 Dec 1901 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F59514 |
55 | Cato / Gansden | 25 May 1902 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F63423 |
56 | Williams / Kidson | 19 Jun 1902 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F44879 |
57 | Sheldon / Vogler | 31 May 1903 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F59959 |
58 | Hulley / Shaw | 4 Sep 1903 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F5688 |
59 | Pedlar / Banor | 30 Apr 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F60692 |
60 | Smith / Fuller | 16 May 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F1462 |
61 | Humphris / Hamlin | 14 Dec 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F9720 |
62 | Sheppard / Wemyss | 9 Aug 1905 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F42970 |
63 | Wilmot / Featherstone | 30 May 1907 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F24229 |
64 | Cawood / Caine | 9 Sep 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F4102 |
65 | Collins / Pike | 23 Dec 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F51342 |
66 | Hofmeyr / Clarence | 6 Sep 1910 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F14341 |
67 | Barnard / Francis | 30 Dec 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F53309 |
68 | Little / Bowker | 26 Aug 1916 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F41822 |
69 | Parker / Lace | 6 Jan 1917 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F43572 |
70 | Brandon / Sissing | 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F22965 |
71 | Ubsdell / White | 9 Feb 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F48128 |
72 | Gammie / Bowman | 24 Apr 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F53219 |
73 | Pike / McGregor | 7 Jun 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F33758 |
74 | Campbell / Waudby | 17 Jul 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F52368 |
75 | Gordon / Cockcroft | 31 Aug 1918 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F38649 |
76 | White / Blakey | 31 Jul 1919 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F63445 |
77 | Osbourn / Tyndall | 20 Aug 1919 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F4796 |
78 | Lester / Walters | 6 Oct 1919 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F47061 |
79 | Allen / Beck | 29 Dec 1919 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F25855 |
80 | Brice / Beck | 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F25851 |
81 | Wilkin / Impey | 10 Jul 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F47055 |
82 | Harper / Wellbeloved | 4 Sep 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F49603 |
83 | Griffin / Smith | 4 Dec 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F62791 |
84 | Hodgson / Warren | 15 Dec 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F46914 |
85 | Wiblin / Moore | 26 Jan 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F63418 |
86 | Barnard / Bruce | 3 Mar 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F62384 |
87 | van Rooyen / Moore | 20 Apr 1922 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F63419 |
88 | Foxcroft / O'Sullivan | 22 Jun 1922 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F17707 |
89 | Richmond / Turvey | 27 Aug 1923 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F50781 |
90 | Field / Secker | 4 Jun 1924 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F58844 |
91 | Mallet / Hesselman | 2 Jun 1925 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F56459 |
92 | Smedley / Rubidge | 12 Nov 1925 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F2336 |
93 | Usher / | 1926 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F51255 |
94 | Wall / Reith | 25 Aug 1926 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F47287 |
95 | Andrews / Ridinger | 26 Mar 1927 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F43374 |
96 | Beard / Ridinger | F43375 | ||
97 | Davidson / Ridinger | 7 Jul 1928 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F43370 |
98 | Lloyd / McLeod | 19 Jan 1929 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F5834 |
99 | Beckwith / Coltman | 19 Feb 1929 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F41801 |
100 | Umpleby / Ridinger | 25 Jan 1930 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F43373 |
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