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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| 501 |  Gardner, Douglas Walter | 26 May 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78158 |
| 502 | Houston, William Mustin | 31 May 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135856 |
| 503 | Penny, Marjorie Ellen | 7 Jul 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I50311 |
| 504 | Boucher, Susanna Luseana | 16 Aug 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I24869 |
| 505 | Chandler, Edward | 3 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36588 |
| 506 | Steel, Lillian Elizabeth | 12 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116431 |
| 507 | Hayter, Gerald Eric John | 29 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32346 |
| 508 | Bailey, Purdon Herbert | 31 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108820 |
| 509 | Bailey, Raymond Purdon Cockcroft | 31 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108230 |
| 510 | Cannon, Ruby Guinevere | 19 Jan 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3362 |
| 511 | Blackbeard, Dorothy Margaret | 8 Mar 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70411 |
| 512 | Webber, Mary Evelyn | 3 Apr 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26437 |
| 513 | Mundell, James Butler | 10 Apr 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I87311 |
| 514 | Mandy, Stephen Day Locke | 25 Apr 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I81948 |
| 515 | Herbst, Thelma Lucy Elizabeth | 1 May 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I27300 |
| 516 | Cockcroft, Irene Ada | 2 May 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12832 |
| 517 | Holliday, Doreen Carlyle | 29 Jun 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32285 |
| 518 | Wright, Basil Eric | 21 Jul 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102548 |
| 519 | Holt, Dorothy Gladys | 26 Jul 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46094 |
| 520 | Forrester, Miriam Grace | 12 Oct 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I111437 |
| 521 | Cockcroft, Ernest Evelyn | 30 Oct 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108210 |
| 522 | Boardman, Pansy Bertha Mable | 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I19623 |
| 523 | Bodington, Gilbert | 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I27125 |
| 524 | Fielding, Ernest | 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I151919 |
| 525 | MacGillvray, Hephizibah Effie Beatrice | 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166791 |
| 526 | Ralph, Clarence George | Aft 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I155944 |
| 527 | de Witt, Emmet Walton | Abt 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103538 |
| 528 | Jenner, Peggy Jean Aylmer | 18 Jan 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130456 |
| 529 | Ford, Errol | 22 Jan 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174024 |
| 530 | Glass, Horace Walter | 5 Feb 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12921 |
| 531 | Roberts, Herbert Cornelius | 21 Feb 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102552 |
| 532 | Palmer, George Clarence | 14 May 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34874 |
| 533 | Boucher, Wilhelmina | 18 Jun 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I24879 |
| 534 | Killick, Robert Edward Lionel | 18 Jun 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I56051 |
| 535 | Dyer, Edna Earle | 12 Aug 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I119862 |
| 536 | Austin, Evelyn Eardly Wilmot | 1 Sep 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113564 |
| 537 | Mundell, Annie Magdalena | 18 Oct 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142317 |
| 538 | Hartmann, Barry Carl | 28 Nov 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120144 |
| 539 | Viljoen, Fani | 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I41630 |
| 540 | Zimmerman, Valerie Mary | 28 Mar 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12709 |
| 541 | Hulley, Roy Gordon | 29 Mar 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I55033 |
| 542 | Wilson, Eileen Jessie | 17 Jun 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67769 |
| 543 | Manham, Alice Maud Hester | 8 Aug 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I122443 |
| 544 | Estment, Ronald | 6 Sep 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12668 |
| 545 | Williams, Alan Couts | 15 Sep 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I38362 |
| 546 | Cumming, Wendy Louise | 17 Oct 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I31520 |
| 547 | Maker, John William | 4 Nov 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173107 |
| 548 | Whiting, Mary | 16 Nov 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14441 |
| 549 | Page, Jessie Elizabeth | 12 Dec 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115772 |
| 550 | Barnes, Doris Maud | 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I98437 |
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