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 |  Hulley, Roy Gordon | 29 Mar 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I55033 |
| 452 | Hulley, Jeffrey Thomas | 5 Mar 1957 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47234 |
| 453 | Hulley, Isaac Edgar | 19 Feb 1946 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14549 |
| 454 | Hulley, Ian Ivan | 23 Feb 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47278 |
| 455 | Hulley, George Bertram | 16 Dec 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I55035 |
| 456 | Hulley, Anthony Wallace | 29 Aug 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47284 |
| 457 | Houston, William Mustin | 31 May 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135856 |
| 458 | Horwitz, Zena Sonja | 21 Aug 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I4731 |
| 459 | Hopkins, Florence Winifred Madge | 12 Sep 2000 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57138 |
| 460 | Hoole, Vida Lilian | 22 Oct 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32533 |
| 461 | Hoole, Joan Godlonton | 7 Oct 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I25312 |
| 462 | Hoole, Ernest Edwin | 3 May 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32431 |
| 463 | Honey, Desmond Gordon | 9 Feb 1935 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177262 |
| 464 | Homberg, Dorothy May | 10 Feb 1982 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131691 |
| 465 | Holt, Dorothy Gladys | 26 Jul 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46094 |
| 466 | Holloway, Mary Eleanor | 24 Apr 1945 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I167736 |
| 467 | Holliday, Frederick Percival Fitz | 1 Aug 1952 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32276 |
| 468 | Holliday, Doreen Carlyle | 29 Jun 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32285 |
| 469 | Holder, Andrew Philip | 11 Sep 1938 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182384 |
| 470 | Hockly, Lilian Jemima | 23 Aug 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I65287 |
| 471 | Hobbs, Olive Charlotte Eliza | 28 Apr 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13759 |
| 472 | Hilton, Sarah Jemima | 9 Nov 1919 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I179661 |
| 473 | Hillary, Harry White | 27 Aug 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I108835 |
| 474 | Hill, John Horatio | 11 May 1952 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I24084 |
| 475 | Hibbins, Dorothy Eleanor | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I170253 |
| 476 | Heydenrych, Robert Albert Donald | 28 Aug 1983 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I181403 |
| 477 | Hewitt, Annie Reed | 2 Jun 1941 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78924 |
| 478 | Herbst, Thelma Lucy Elizabeth | 1 May 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I27300 |
| 479 | Henchie, Eileen Mavis | 24 Sep 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I65266 |
| 480 | Heathcote, Marion Alice | 10 Dec 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74151 |
| 481 | Heathcote, George Gage | 1 Jan 1854 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3001 |
| 482 | Heath, Johannes Petrus | 24 Jul 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174222 |
| 483 | Hearder, Robert | 8 Apr 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I2597 |
| 484 | Hayter, Gerald Eric John | 29 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32346 |
| 485 | Haynes, Irene Alice | 16 Feb 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175935 |
| 486 | Harvey, Elizabeth Garland | 3 Dec 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I181812 |
| 487 | Harvey, Charles Brand | 5 Oct 1949 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I135544 |
| 488 | Hartmann, Barry Carl | 28 Nov 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120144 |
| 489 | Hartley, Mabel Lucy | 12 Jun 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I13552 |
| 490 | Hart, Stephanus Meintjies | 6 Oct 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I573 |
| 491 | Hart, Ida Lilian Carlisle | 3 Feb 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I172764 |
| 492 | Hart, Frances Jane Perkins | 15 Dec 1929 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I69068 |
| 493 | Harris, Vernon | 30 Dec 1995 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59798 |
| 494 | Harris, Eliza | 12 Jun 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165249 |
| 495 | Harrild, Lilian Annie | 17 Jul 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101134 |
| 496 | Harding, Joseph Henry | 5 Dec 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I148585 |
| 497 | Harding, Edna | 1982 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57102 |
| 498 | Hancock, George Sydney | 6 Feb 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54714 |
| 499 | Hancock, Elizabeth McKenzie | 5 May 1934 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I91195 |
| 500 | Hancock, Alice Rachel | 17 Jan 1990 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54711 |
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