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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| 351 |  Wright, Hugh Clarence | 20 Feb 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102503 |
| 352 | Cockcroft, Evelyn Wood Shepstone | 9 Apr 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107648 |
| 353 | Chandler, Elizabeth Anne | 12 Apr 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36731 |
| 354 | Graham, Arthur James Leonard | 15 May 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110548 |
| 355 | Baber, Miranda | 24 May 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I75590 |
| 356 | Ricketts, Arthur Charles | 19 Jun 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130632 |
| 357 | Gilfillan, Valerie Nita | 21 Jun 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I21424 |
| 358 | Trollip, Eloise Wedmore | 8 Aug 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I22187 |
| 359 | Lavender, William | 19 Nov 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32432 |
| 360 | Harding, Joseph Henry | 5 Dec 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I148585 |
| 361 | Alexander, Muriel May | 6 Dec 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I48967 |
| 362 | Rowland, Gwendoline | 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143032 |
| 363 | O'Connor, Verdun Stanley | 20 Jan 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46427 |
| 364 | Gillman, David Walter | 2 Feb 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I181081 |
| 365 | Cooper, Bernard Francis Hartley | 29 Jun 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I48704 |
| 366 | Wright, Hilda Mabel | 29 Jul 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102499 |
| 367 | Parker, Eva Mildred | 20 Aug 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I122460 |
| 368 | Scott, Elizabeth Maria Henrietta | 25 Aug 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174650 |
| 369 | Wilson, William Buchanan (Billy) | 27 Aug 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67763 |
| 370 | Camp, Cora Angela | 28 Aug 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54720 |
| 371 | Dodge, James Matthew | 6 Sep 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I9815 |
| 372 | Lambert, Henry Edward | 23 Dec 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70414 |
| 373 | Robson, William Edward | 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I147590 |
| 374 | Thomas, Clarice Olive | 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101383 |
| 375 | Riggs, Albertina Louisa | 1 Jan 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128542 |
| 376 | Kumm, Bernard Raymond | 23 Feb 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I87310 |
| 377 | Neilson, Thomas Smith | 5 May 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59461 |
| 378 | de Jager, Bertha Olive Agnes | 5 Jun 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108202 |
| 379 | Bailey, Mercia Hermina | 20 Jun 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108232 |
| 380 | Daniel, Mabel Southwell | 19 Aug 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I148583 |
| 381 | Farley, Lionel Llewellyn | 2 Oct 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12793 |
| 382 | Bruce, William Henry | 23 Oct 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177727 |
| 383 | Hutchins, Florence Gertrude | 31 Oct 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35797 |
| 384 | Baikie, Ewan Lewis | 12 Nov 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36791 |
| 385 | Bowker, Susan Ivy | Abt 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I301 |
| 386 | May, Stephen Frederick | 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32315 |
| 387 | Dale, Walter Harold | 8 Apr 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128081 |
| 388 | Noël, Joseph Roger | 10 Apr 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I93939 |
| 389 | Wright, Joseph Cecil Llewellyn Alexis | 1 May 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I27261 |
| 390 | Ogilvie, Charles Lovemore | 26 May 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15200 |
| 391 | Nelson, Kenneth Clinton | 23 Jun 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I6872 |
| 392 | Whittal, Sydney King | 26 Jul 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I18160 |
| 393 | Oakes, Edit Maria | 14 Aug 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158761 |
| 394 | Barnes, Marion Evelyn | 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I144720 |
| 395 | Newnham, William | 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35824 |
| 396 | Wright, Muriel Florence | 5 Jan 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102521 |
| 397 | Batteson, Oswald Courtney | 16 Feb 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158289 |
| 398 | Turvey, Reginald Ernest George | 2 Mar 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I141878 |
| 399 | Vorster, William Gabriel Jordaan | 22 Mar 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125080 |
| 400 | Menkin, Aubrey Abraham | May 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102370 |
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