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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| 401 |  Foxcroft, Ernest Darby | 12 Jun 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47722 |
| 402 | Thomson, Diana Mifanwy | 13 Aug 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26741 |
| 403 | Driver, Annie Thackwray | 14 Aug 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67132 |
| 404 | Richardson, Hector Charles | 20 Aug 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132413 |
| 405 | Mast, Catherine Beatrice Adeline | 17 Oct 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107832 |
| 406 | Hoole, Vida Lilian | 22 Oct 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32533 |
| 407 | Johnston, Gwendoline Irene | 14 Nov 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I169649 |
| 408 | Caldwell, Dorothy Aileen | 10 Dec 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164395 |
| 409 | Packer, Eva | Abt 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110553 |
| 410 | De Villiers, Gerhardus Francois | 1 Mar 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I37420 |
| 411 | Pearce, John Bolton | 10 Apr 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108614 |
| 412 | Orsmond, Harold Charles Henry | 29 Apr 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108415 |
| 413 | Fuller, Alfred Allan | 4 Jun 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I126811 |
| 414 | Miller, Nora Mildred | 2 Jul 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I28557 |
| 415 | Mustin, Rose | 31 Jul 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135849 |
| 416 | Pike, Ivy Harriet | 3 Aug 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143673 |
| 417 | Neville, Robert Henry | 4 Aug 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70828 |
| 418 | Painter, Kathleen Joan | 25 Aug 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I171825 |
| 419 | Hart, Stephanus Meintjies | 6 Oct 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I573 |
| 420 | Douglas, Asthore Muriel | 26 Oct 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67764 |
| 421 | Seaton, Dulcie | 29 Oct 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107788 |
| 422 | Humphris, Edith Elizabeth | 4 Dec 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26728 |
| 423 | Smith, Margery Ann | 21 Dec 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23502 |
| 424 | Robinson, William Rose | 3 Jan 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I75820 |
| 425 | Yakles, Charlotte | Abt Feb 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78494 |
| 426 | Eva, Doris Alison | 18 May 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112019 |
| 427 | Pitcher, Jack Clifford | 2 Jun 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115768 |
| 428 | Knott, Ronald Ashton | 20 Jun 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116692 |
| 429 | Sparks, Nellie May | 1 Jul 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3114 |
| 430 | Webster, Norman John | 4 Jul 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I170906 |
| 431 | Anderson, Margaret Mary | 16 Aug 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115689 |
| 432 | Halse, Royden Henry | 16 Aug 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I113591 |
| 433 | Fisher, Alice | 20 Aug 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103863 |
| 434 | Newton, Molly Gwendolyn | 28 Sep 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70019 |
| 435 | George, Lawrence Charles | 24 Feb 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158354 |
| 436 | Lane, William John | 2 Jun 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58266 |
| 437 | Wright, Joseph Sydney | 7 Jul 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102501 |
| 438 | Doherty, Muriel May | 30 Jul 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142333 |
| 439 | Usher, Ruby Kathleen | 1 Sep 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143523 |
| 440 | Ross, John | 5 Oct 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107942 |
| 441 | Annear, Annie Eileen | 15 Nov 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I25965 |
| 442 | Eva, Leslie Oswald | 21 Nov 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112302 |
| 443 | Clack, Gerald Stanley | 31 Dec 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I129399 |
| 444 | Glass, Edward Lancelot | 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12932 |
| 445 | Keggie, Doanld Andrew | 3 Jan 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102532 |
| 446 | Cockrell, Florence Maud | 10 Mar 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13313 |
| 447 | Lloyd, Olive Weymouth | 12 Mar 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I11662 |
| 448 | Rowlands, Leo | 9 Apr 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102470 |
| 449 | Steel, Llandell Redvers | 6 Jun 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125073 |
| 450 | Harris, Eliza | 12 Jun 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165249 |
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Matches 401 to 404 of 404
| Family |
Marriage |
Family ID | ||
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| 401 | van Outdshoorn / Reynolds | F29391 | ||
| 402 | McGlone / McPherson | F61770 | ||
| 403 | Lee / Gardner | F40377 | ||
| 404 | De Ponselle / Raubenheimer | F65615 | ||
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