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Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa



 


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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.

Latitude: -29.8586227, Longitude: 31.0259636


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Birth

Matches 401 to 450 of 1168

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
401 Grundy, Margaret Gladys   I2608
402 Gush, Dennis Mervyn   I40706
403 Gush, Graham Norman  30 Jan 1958Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I40747
404 Gush, Jennifer Anne   I40782
405 Gush, Roger Werndly   I40902
406 Gush, Samantha Elizabeth   I40912
407 Hagemann, Rohan Frederick Desmond   I84943
408 Hagemann, Sven Ray   I84942
409 Hall, David Peter   I117793
410 Hall, Debbie   I117791
411 Hall, Lee Ann   I117792
412 Halliday, Olive Maud   I67753
413 Halse, Taylor Michael   I180841
414 Halstone, Leslie Carmel   I179492
415 Halstone, Leslie Montgomery   I179490
416 Hamlin, Angela Clarissa   I26748
417 Hamlin, Guy Herbert  22 Jun 1918Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I26732
418 Hamlin, Guy Ralph   I26743
419 Hamlin, Ian Maurice  7 Jul 1916Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I26731
420 Hamlin, Jennifer Diana   I26745
421 Hamlin, Linda Mifanwy   I26744
422 Hamlin, Lynne   I26734
423 Hamlin, Malcolm Ralph   I26735
424 Hamlin, Ralph Pitt   I26729
425 Hamlin, Trevor  25 Apr 1915Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I26730
426 Hanegraaf, Sharon Marina   I29320
427 Hardie, Alison Rose   I78512
428 Hardie, Lianne Gail   I78510
429 Hardie, Roger Cameron   I78514
430 Harding, Patrick Desmond   I39650
431 Hardman, Brian   I163191
432 Hardman, Jeanette Ann   I163189
433 Hardman, Stanley George   I163187
434 Harman, Bryan Colin   I103599
435 Harris, Caron   I179497
436 Harris, Dee - Ann   I67761
437 Harris, Elaine   I179496
438 Harris, George   I179495
439 Harris, Gregory Allen   I67762
440 Harris, John   I179498
441 Harris, Kenneth Walter  21 Jun 1922Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I110803
442 Harvey, Lynne Eleanor Graham   I166969
443 Hathorn, Donald James   I4169
444 Hattie, Kaye Vera  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I127585
445 Hawkes, Christopher Bradfield   I99431
446 Hayes, Barbara Janet   I70835
447 Hayes, Geoffrey Michael   I70836
448 Haynes, Arthur Maurice  23 Feb 1922Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I175934
449 Haynes, Irene Alice  9 Nov 1924Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I175935
450 Hayter, Gerald William   I32353

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Death

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID 
401 Lee, Ann Trotter  19 May 1958Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I69039
402 Lee, Frank Reay  27 Jul 1936Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I105039
403 Lee, Redvers Henry Woodroff  26 Nov 1984Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I125063
404 Leech, Joe  3 Oct 1936Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I143764
405 Leech, Thomas Spencer  28 Apr 1925Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I165459
406 Leech, William  7 Jan 1896Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I165457
407 Lelong, Louis Edmond  4 Jul 2017Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I175986
408 Leo, Ian Lancelot  13 Jul 1982Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I53287
409 Leo-Smith, Ryle  1987Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I67846
410 Leppan, Clarice Maud  Jan 1994Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I59757
411 Leppan, Iris Doreen  23 May 1984Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I125512
412 Leppan, Kathleen Claire  1 May 1941Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I125513
413 Leppan, Wilfred Clyde St Clair  17 Jan 1941Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I28556
414 Letty, Frances Josephine  17 Mar 1961Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I35897
415 Lewis, Edith Constance  25 Sep 1955Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I18161
416 Lewis, Ruby  23 Mar 1963Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I45550
417 Liversage, Henry  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I36710
418 Lloyd, Gavin Rick  19 Nov 2001Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I133275
419 Lloyd, Gertrude Olivia  3 Apr 1944Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I12342
420 Lloyd, Lillian Pansy Clementine  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I14894
421 Lloyd, Olive Weymouth  12 Mar 1972Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I11662
422 Lloyd, Sidney Reuben  16 Dec 1981Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I15004
423 Lloyd, Walter Edward  31 Jul 1921Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I151804
424 Loose, Edith Elizabeth  13 Mar 1934Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I157675
425 Lovemore, Harry Carrington  31 Dec 1945Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I15434
426 Lovemore, Yvonne  1993Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I15354
427 Lucas, Charles Samuel  10 Apr 1937Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I39597
428 Lundall, Elizabeth  1959Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I177785
429 Lundall, Rachel Maris-Stella  3 Feb 1981Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I177788
430 Lupke, Petty Mona  14 Aug 1980Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I47256
431 Lutman, Andrew  26 Jun 1921Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I23905
432 MacGillvray, Frances Elizabeth  1 Feb 1954Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I166776
433 MacGillvray, Hephizibah Effie Beatrice  1978Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I166791
434 MacMaster, Amy Maitland (Tame)  7 Feb 1939Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I124984
435 Mackenzie, Una  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I1494
436 Magri-Overend, Lily  13 Oct 1986Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I5266
437 Maker, John William  4 Nov 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I173107
438 Makings, Hercules Ingoldsby  12 Jun 2002Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I101414
439 Mallett, Harry Trecoombe  2 Jun 1960Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I153560
440 Mandy, Stephen Day Locke  25 Apr 1977Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I81948
441 Manham, Alice Maud Hester  8 Aug 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I122443
442 Marais, Catharina Cornelia  28 Sep 1959Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I12119
443 Marais, John Lodwyk  14 Oct 1996Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I57531
444 Mardon, Kingsley Joseph  11 Feb 2007Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I49224
445 Marshall, Mary Marcella  1964Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I37006
446 Martin, Brian Edward  4 Jul 2001Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I158679
447 Massey-Hicks, Aileen Patricia  19 Jul 1980Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I101422
448 Massey-Hicks, Forbes Hercules  25 Mar 1943Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I101301
449 Massey-Hicks, Vincent Claude  18 Sep 1954Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I101354
450 Mast, Catherine Beatrice Adeline  17 Oct 1968Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I107832

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Marriage

Matches 401 to 404 of 404

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   Family    Marriage    Family ID 
401 Zeeman / Scott  24 Dec 1901Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa F59514
402 van Outdshoorn / Reynolds   F29391
403 van Reenen Mostert / Cleenwerk   F43565
404 van Rooyen / Moore  20 Apr 1922Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa F63419

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