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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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Death |
Person ID | ||
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| 651 |  Cramer, Henrietta Grace | 15 Oct 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173114 |
| 652 | Cramer, Barbara Adelaide | 16 Aug 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173112 |
| 653 | Cramer, Alfred Benjamin | 19 Aug 1948 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173104 |
| 654 | Coward, Harriet Jean Pacy | 22 Feb 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47702 |
| 655 | Cowan, Robert | 9 Aug 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130152 |
| 656 | Couse, Gladys Rosina Gable | 11 May 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45381 |
| 657 | Copeland, Elfrida Cornelia | 1981 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I92200 |
| 658 | Cooper, Joan Francis | 15 Feb 1982 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I48709 |
| 659 | Cooper, Bernard Francis Hartley | 29 Jun 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I48704 |
| 660 | Cook, Nicholas Thomas John | 22 Jun 1908 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I136207 |
| 661 | Conradie, Phyllis Charlotte | 15 Feb 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I62755 |
| 662 | Collins, Colin Kenneth | 12 Jul 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I153344 |
| 663 | Colchester, Amy Beatrice | 3 Jun 1952 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I88909 |
| 664 | Cockrell, Florence Maud | 10 Mar 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13313 |
| 665 | Cockcroft, Stanley | 31 May 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107997 |
| 666 | Cockcroft, Philip Henry Gordon | 17 Dec 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108221 |
| 667 | Cockcroft, Irene Ada | 2 May 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12832 |
| 668 | Cockcroft, Helen Elizabeth | 22 Feb 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I33109 |
| 669 | Cockcroft, Evelyn Wood Shepstone | 9 Apr 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107648 |
| 670 | Cockcroft, Ernest Evelyn | 30 Oct 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108210 |
| 671 | Cockcroft, Athol Ernest | 11 Dec 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108157 |
| 672 | Cloete, Ann | 2014 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173268 |
| 673 | Clarke, Elizabeth Isabella | 1793 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I50029 |
| 674 | Clack, Gerald Stanley | 31 Dec 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I129399 |
| 675 | Charlton, Joan Muriel Crompton | 31 Dec 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32289 |
| 676 | Chapman, John Jex | 3 Nov 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I136201 |
| 677 | Chapman, James Jex | 14 Sep 1861 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I178599 |
| 678 | Chandler, Elizabeth Anne | 12 Apr 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36731 |
| 679 | Chandler, Edward | 3 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36588 |
| 680 | Chalmers, Geraldine Frances | 6 Oct 1942 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I105261 |
| 681 | Cayzer, Julia Ann | 15 Dec 1851 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I4868 |
| 682 | Cawood, Margaret Hester Rhoda | 14 Dec 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I55098 |
| 683 | Cawood, Lawrence Alfred | 6 Sep 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I92383 |
| 684 | Cawood, Frances Julia | 31 May 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I123764 |
| 685 | Cawood, Carey Hobson | 22 Dec 2000 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I60432 |
| 686 | Cato, William Henry | 1844 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130340 |
| 687 | Cato, Sarah Frances | 26 Sep 1901 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39771 |
| 688 | Cato, Orlando William | 14 Jun 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I160366 |
| 689 | Cato, George Joseph | 5 Sep 1877 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130313 |
| 690 | Cato, George Christopher | 1893 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132680 |
| 691 | Cato, Frances Elizabeth | 9 Jun 1905 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130315 |
| 692 | Cato, Christopher Joseph | 20 Mar 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132681 |
| 693 | Carr-Hartley, Thomas Augustus Corke | 7 Dec 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I88710 |
| 694 | Carlisle, Silvia Blanche | 21 Jul 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74284 |
| 695 | Cannon, Ruby Guinevere | 19 Jan 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3362 |
| 696 | Campbell, Marilyn Sue | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110468 | |
| 697 | Campbell, Berenice | Abt 1975 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I18320 |
| 698 | Camp, Cora Angela | 28 Aug 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54720 |
| 699 | Calverley, James 1820 Settler | 5 Dec 1850 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39559 |
| 700 | Caldwell, Dorothy Aileen | 10 Dec 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164395 |
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