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 |  Bartie, Alice Maria | 23 Jun 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130742 |
| 652 | Naude, Christina Johanna | 17 Jul 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I86398 |
| 653 | Cowan, Robert | 9 Aug 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130152 |
| 654 | Burton, Leonard Francis Walter | 3 Dec 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78285 |
| 655 | Charlton, Joan Muriel Crompton | 31 Dec 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32289 |
| 656 | Rudd, Johannes Stephanus | Abt 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I90230 |
| 657 | Hancock, Alice Rachel | 17 Jan 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54711 |
| 658 | Conradie, Phyllis Charlotte | 15 Feb 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I62755 |
| 659 | Cramer, Henrietta Grace | 15 Oct 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173114 |
| 660 | Ferris, Grace Marcia | 24 Dec 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120820 |
| 661 | McTravis, Myrtle Eva | 15 May 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I171017 |
| 662 | Simpson, Granville Kenneth | 29 Jun 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I7401 |
| 663 | Jefferies, Cyril West | 23 Jul 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152191 |
| 664 | Heath, Johannes Petrus | 24 Jul 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174222 |
| 665 | Reynolds, Molly | 31 Jul 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I124806 |
| 666 | Powell, Arthur Garfield | 2 Aug 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35825 |
| 667 | Wallace, William Frederick Orr | 24 Aug 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I180869 |
| 668 | Wallis, Percy Joseph | 2 Sep 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I83568 |
| 669 | Southey, Arthur Derrick | 6 Sep 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I5486 |
| 670 | Tennis, Ian | 13 Oct 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I41586 |
| 671 | Whittle, James Mortimer | 15 Nov 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I140523 |
| 672 | Mathews, Louisa Cornelia Jacoba | 16 Nov 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I66079 |
| 673 | Halse, Thomas Henry | 25 Nov 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I119995 |
| 674 | Lane, Ronald Shales | 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I154232 |
| 675 | Kidwell, Candice | 16 Feb 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174575 |
| 676 | Webb, Colin | Mar 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57233 |
| 677 | Tennant, Martha Lockhart | 7 Aug 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I134275 |
| 678 | Warren, Eva Kathleen | 29 Aug 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I163310 |
| 679 | Gradwell, Gladys Daisy | 22 Oct 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I61213 |
| 680 | Carr-Hartley, Thomas Augustus Corke | 7 Dec 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I88710 |
| 681 | Lovemore, Yvonne | 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15354 |
| 682 | Melvill, Dennis Garnet | 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I92214 |
| 683 | Goosen, Florence Maud | 11 Apr 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36707 |
| 684 | Fletcher, Hilary Mary | 27 Jul 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I163065 |
| 685 | Forbes, Henry Edwin | 27 Aug 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12870 |
| 686 | Pike, Clifford Gordon | 24 Sep 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I22843 |
| 687 | Bellows, James Charles Michael | 11 Nov 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120655 |
| 688 | Moore, Christopher John | 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108043 |
| 689 | Taylor, Yvonne | 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103106 |
| 690 | Kidwell, Lionel Thomas | Jan 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46464 |
| 691 | Leppan, Clarice Maud | Jan 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59757 |
| 692 | Wentworth, Hazel Maud | 22 Mar 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I170585 |
| 693 | Couse, Gladys Rosina Gable | 11 May 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45381 |
| 694 | Carlisle, Silvia Blanche | 21 Jul 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74284 |
| 695 | Hoole, Joan Godlonton | 7 Oct 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I25312 |
| 696 | Lee, Alice Victoria (Punch) | 8 Oct 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I124985 |
| 697 | Swindale, Madeline | 28 Nov 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I76183 |
| 698 | Aldridge, Hubert Wilfred | Abt 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59758 |
| 699 | Bennetts, Benjamin Raymond | 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113805 |
| 700 | Kelbe, Joyce Amy | 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145162 |
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