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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Death  |
Person ID | ||
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| 301 |  Tarr, Dennis | 15 Jan 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I97976 |
| 302 | Anderson, William Webster | 15 Feb 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I2582 |
| 303 | Coward, Harriet Jean Pacy | 22 Feb 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47702 |
| 304 | Hobbs, Olive Charlotte Eliza | 28 Apr 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13759 |
| 305 | Welch, Wilfred John | 13 Jun 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I146763 |
| 306 | Stow, Edward Amos Theodore | 30 Jul 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I72043 |
| 307 | Freemantle, Lois May | Aug 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35715 |
| 308 | Bastard, Mary Ellen | 1 Aug 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I5821 |
| 309 | Forbes, Derrick Ivan | 23 Aug 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12872 |
| 310 | Hulley, Anthony Wallace | 29 Aug 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47284 |
| 311 | Marais, Catharina Cornelia | 28 Sep 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12119 |
| 312 | Painter, Claris Louisa | 28 Nov 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I171882 |
| 313 | Treadway, Nora | 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152762 |
| 314 | Turnbull, William Edward | 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112119 |
| 315 | George, Philip Henry | 4 Apr 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157801 |
| 316 | Giddy, Jessie Jocelyn Atherstone | 21 May 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I5426 |
| 317 | Mallett, Harry Trecoombe | 2 Jun 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I153560 |
| 318 | Jennings, Alfred Ernest | 3 Jun 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128909 |
| 319 | Pike, Edith Mary | 2 Sep 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143672 |
| 320 | Shepstone, Theophilus Havelock | 4 Sep 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58639 |
| 321 | Weldon, Francis Joseph | 4 Oct 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I104038 |
| 322 | Letty, Frances Josephine | 17 Mar 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35897 |
| 323 | Curry, Clifford Allen | 8 May 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78467 |
| 324 | Thacker, Matilda Lavinia | 6 Aug 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162988 |
| 325 | Gibson, Malcolm Christopher Keen | 22 Sep 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113665 |
| 326 | Woods, Charles Aldridge | 24 Sep 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I56949 |
| 327 | Bennett, Mary Ethel | 11 Oct 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177592 |
| 328 | Heathcote, Marion Alice | 10 Dec 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74151 |
| 329 | Hutton, Joan Beevor | 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I121897 |
| 330 | Jakins, Charles Cyril | Abt 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32756 |
| 331 | Reed, Dorothy Augusta Milbank | 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78927 |
| 332 | Hart, Ida Lilian Carlisle | 3 Feb 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I172764 |
| 333 | Webber, Vivian Reginald | 9 Nov 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I27266 |
| 334 | Stewart, Ethel Daisy | 22 Nov 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I126718 |
| 335 | Bowles, George Zacheriah | 14 Jan 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36716 |
| 336 | Bruce, Clarice Maud | 29 Jan 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177708 |
| 337 | Walsh, Terrance Gordon | 13 Feb 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46456 |
| 338 | Lewis, Ruby | 23 Mar 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45550 |
| 339 | Sterley, William Edward Henley | 9 Apr 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116211 |
| 340 | Symons, John Philip | 31 May 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157086 |
| 341 | Smith, Johanna Susan Jacoba (Annie Susan) | 2 Jun 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34880 |
| 342 | Bowker, Harold Dugard | 27 Aug 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I1008 |
| 343 | Shone, Oscar Archibald | 6 Nov 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13253 |
| 344 | Eales, Colin Robert | 17 Nov 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I104183 |
| 345 | Hibbins, Dorothy Eleanor | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I170253 |
| 346 | Joyner, Thomas Hamilton | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I98527 |
| 347 | Marshall, Mary Marcella | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I37006 |
| 348 | Reed, Kathleen Constance | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78926 |
| 349 | Vice, Arthur Bernard | 15 Feb 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I83495 |
| 350 | Futter, Constance Caroline | 16 Feb 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45446 |
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