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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| 701 |  Neveling, Petronella | Abt 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34891 |
| 702 | Snape, William Watson 'Ginger' | 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46457 |
| 703 | McEwan, Mary Dunipace Gilchrist | 31 Jan 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I119875 |
| 704 | Garstang, Anthony | 30 Apr 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112916 |
| 705 | Simpson, Eric Percy | 5 May 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I51030 |
| 706 | Rudd, Winifred Dorothy | 30 May 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78390 |
| 707 | Flook, Doris Mabel | 1 Aug 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34884 |
| 708 | Harris, Vernon | 30 Dec 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59798 |
| 709 | Farr, Leonard George | 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74420 |
| 710 | Penny, Ivy Binetta | 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I84037 |
| 711 | Morgan, Stella May | Mar 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39510 |
| 712 | Marais, John Lodwyk | 14 Oct 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57531 |
| 713 | Adamson, Edith Daphne | 30 Dec 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174023 |
| 714 | Armstrong, Douglas Lorraine | 13 Mar 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I84040 |
| 715 | Sturgess, Frank | 21 Apr 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57137 |
| 716 | Bruce, Joan Lottie | 6 May 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177738 |
| 717 | Cramer, Martha Jemima | 3 Jul 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173106 |
| 718 | Collins, Colin Kenneth | 12 Jul 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I153344 |
| 719 | Kennedy, Robert Alwyn Longlands | 24 Aug 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152849 |
| 720 | Bernard, Dorothy Ann | 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101435 |
| 721 | Moore, Dorris | 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162216 |
| 722 | O'Brein, Patrick Edward | 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I79880 |
| 723 | O'Brien, Patrick Edward | 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45901 |
| 724 | Brent, Kathleen | 23 Jan 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47993 |
| 725 | Hancock, George Sydney | 6 Feb 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54714 |
| 726 | Brett, Ninon Estelle Frances | 9 Feb 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102734 |
| 727 | Phillips, Theo | 17 Feb 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175988 |
| 728 | Brooks, Hazel Muriel | 22 Apr 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182053 |
| 729 | Dashwood, Frances Mary | 25 Apr 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I160632 |
| 730 | Roberts, Hugh Henry | 2 May 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57133 |
| 731 | Baragwanath, Emma (Thora) Lucy | 21 Jun 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67771 |
| 732 | Matthews, Gerald James | 3 Jul 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157635 |
| 733 | Elsted, Gwendoline Lilian | 16 Nov 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I180870 |
| 734 | Driver, Margaret Elizabeth Stanford | 5 Dec 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I1507 |
| 735 | Smith, Harold George | 27 Dec 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I41525 |
| 736 | Greathead, Joyce | 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113641 |
| 737 | Andersen, Gloria Patricia | 11 Apr 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157636 |
| 738 | Kirk, Clive Bailey Arnold | 7 Jun 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131567 |
| 739 | Eva, Bernard Wilfred Hendrik | 15 Jul 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110688 |
| 740 | Smith, Harriet Mary-Ann Louisa | 16 Nov 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177981 |
| 741 | Flook, Grace Eileen | 26 Dec 1999 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34875 |
| 742 | Daniel, Robin | 2 Apr 2000 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132644 |
| 743 | Hopkins, Florence Winifred Madge | 12 Sep 2000 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57138 |
| 744 | Cawood, Carey Hobson | 22 Dec 2000 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I60432 |
| 745 | Rheeders, Sylvia | 10 Apr 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I114642 |
| 746 | Thornton, May Sheila | 14 May 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131683 |
| 747 | Martin, Brian Edward | 4 Jul 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158679 |
| 748 | Driver, Shirley Stanford | 13 Jul 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I1505 |
| 749 | Williams, Edna Elizabeth Elsie | 30 Oct 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135870 |
| 750 | Lloyd, Gavin Rick | 19 Nov 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I133275 |
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