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.
Latitude: -29.8586227, Longitude: 31.0259636Matches 951 to 1000 of 1168
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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth  |
Person ID | ||
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| 951 |  Starkey, Lianne | I98738 | ||
| 952 | Starling, Rollo Nainby | I30825 | ||
| 953 | Steenhuisen, Faye | I86791 | ||
| 954 | Stephenson, Cecily Joan | I32376 | ||
| 955 | Stephenson, Craig | I32379 | ||
| 956 | Stephenson, Judy | I32377 | ||
| 957 | Stephenson, Lara Jane | I94994 | ||
| 958 | Stephenson, Louise Claire | I32406 | ||
| 959 | Stephenson, Meredith | I94993 | ||
| 960 | Stephenson, Michael Douglas | I32405 | ||
| 961 | Stephenson, Quinton | I32386 | ||
| 962 | Stephenson, Robyn | I32385 | ||
| 963 | Stephenson, Ryan | 17 Jun 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32404 |
| 964 | Stephenson, Tanya | I32380 | ||
| 965 | Sterley, Beverley Ann | I116339 | ||
| 966 | Sterley, Claire | I116213 | ||
| 967 | Sterley, Jennifer Anne | I115961 | ||
| 968 | Sterley, Kathryn Elizabeth | I115960 | ||
| 969 | Sterley, Lancelot Wilfred | 10 Aug 1939 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116219 |
| 970 | Sterley, Mark James | I115959 | ||
| 971 | Sterley, Raymond Henley | I116215 | ||
| 972 | Sterley, Vance Edward Henley | I116218 | ||
| 973 | Sterley, Wayne John Henley | I116217 | ||
| 974 | Sterley, William Edward Henley | 6 Dec 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116222 |
| 975 | Steward, Beverley | I130660 | ||
| 976 | Steward, Michael | I130661 | ||
| 977 | Stewart, Margaret Moraig | I86028 | ||
| 978 | Steyn, Deborah | I22399 | ||
| 979 | Stokoe, Thomas Colville | I25439 | ||
| 980 | Stone, Caitlin Kayla | I81034 | ||
| 981 | Stone, Colin Daniel | I81033 | ||
| 982 | Stone, Emma Casey | I80977 | ||
| 983 | Stone, Eric | 4 Nov 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103837 |
| 984 | Stone, Gavin John | I81032 | ||
| 985 | Stone, Vaughn Cyril | I46543 | ||
| 986 | Stott, Diana Florence | 3 Sep 1935 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120163 |
| 987 | Stretch, Maria Elizabeth | 9 Oct 1853 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I161268 |
| 988 | Strydom, Patricia Joyce | 12 May 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I126660 |
| 989 | Stuart, Mary Burgess | 7 Apr 1874 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78448 |
| 990 | Sturgess, Blake Charles | I58168 | ||
| 991 | Sturgess, Frank | I57720 | ||
| 992 | Sturgess, Megan Grace | I58169 | ||
| 993 | Sturgess, Sarah Jane | I58170 | ||
| 994 | Sussens, Ian Robert | 1 Feb 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135046 |
| 995 | Swart, Candice-Louise | I124320 | ||
| 996 | Swart, Tracy-Lee | I124321 | ||
| 997 | Swift, James Hugo | I31828 | ||
| 998 | Symonds, Jacqueline Gail | I181193 | ||
| 999 | Tainton, Margaret Elizabeth Blanche | 7 Apr 1876 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58795 |
| 1000 | Talbot, Matthew Sean | I45439 | ||
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