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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| 451 |  Mathews, Louisa Cornelia Jacoba | 16 Nov 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I66079 |
| 452 | Matthews, Gerald James | 3 Jul 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157635 |
| 453 | May, Stephen Frederick | 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32315 |
| 454 | Mayne, Irene Winifred | 16 Mar 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108764 |
| 455 | McEwan, Mary Dunipace Gilchrist | 31 Jan 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I119875 |
| 456 | McFall, Andrew | 6 Jun 1974 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I171829 |
| 457 | McGillewie, William Shaw | 2 Mar 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I22724 |
| 458 | McKechnie, Mabel Ada | 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I183415 |
| 459 | McKenzie, Doreen Beatrice | 2015 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166408 |
| 460 | McKenzie, James Stewart | 27 Sep 1927 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166407 |
| 461 | McKenzie, Margaret Stuart | 2016 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166409 |
| 462 | McLeod, Vera Edna | 18 Mar 1975 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14900 |
| 463 | McMaster, Beatrice Emma Elizabeth | 5 Sep 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I104128 |
| 464 | McMaster, Edith Winifred | 26 Mar 1926 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182192 |
| 465 | McTravis, Myrtle Eva | 15 May 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I171017 |
| 466 | Melvill, Carlton (Bob) | 28 Sep 1948 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I85767 |
| 467 | Melvill, Dennis Garnet | 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I92214 |
| 468 | Menkin, Aubrey Abraham | May 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102370 |
| 469 | Miller, Nora Mildred | 2 Jul 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I28557 |
| 470 | Miller, Ronald Stanley | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I38353 | |
| 471 | Miller, Russel Sydney | 26 Jul 2017 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I154157 |
| 472 | Miners, Amelia | 14 Apr 1942 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125898 |
| 473 | Mitchell, Andrew Donald | 1956 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I178683 |
| 474 | Moller, Else Marguerite | 11 Jul 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45421 |
| 475 | Moore, Christopher John | 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108043 |
| 476 | Moore, Doris | 21 Aug 1932 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130317 |
| 477 | Moore, Dorris | 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162216 |
| 478 | Moore, Violet Beatrice | 6 Jul 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182057 |
| 479 | Moran, Angela Ruth | 23 Jul 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I82056 |
| 480 | Morgan, Stella May | Mar 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39510 |
| 481 | Morgan, William | Oct 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I136117 |
| 482 | Morris, Eliza | Feb 1904 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23901 |
| 483 | Morris, Rosa | Oct 1874 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23902 |
| 484 | Morrow, Ellen Elizabeth | 5 Dec 1944 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182326 |
| 485 | Morwood, Kathleen Maud Elizabeth | 17 Jan 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12669 |
| 486 | Mountjoy, Michael Charles | 11 Aug 1975 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45660 |
| 487 | Muire, Albert King | 17 Jan 1936 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I9235 |
| 488 | Mundell, Annie Magdalena | 18 Oct 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142317 |
| 489 | Mundell, James Butler | 10 Apr 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I87311 |
| 490 | Mundell, Lionel Charles | 22 Jul 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142892 |
| 491 | Munro, Dorothea Hendrina | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I139628 | |
| 492 | Munro, Norman Arthur | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128289 | |
| 493 | Mustin, Rose | 31 Jul 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135849 |
| 494 | Musto, Linda Lillian | 27 Nov 2014 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I179088 |
| 495 | Muter, Alice Holland | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177728 | |
| 496 | Naude, Christina Johanna | 17 Jul 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I86398 |
| 497 | Neilson, Thomas Smith | 5 May 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59461 |
| 498 | Nelson, Kenneth Clinton | 23 Jun 1967 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I6872 |
| 499 | Neveling, Petronella | Abt 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I34891 |
| 500 | Neville, Kathleen Mary Cooban | 4 Aug 1953 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I70830 |
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