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.
Latitude: -29.8586227, Longitude: 31.0259636Matches 551 to 600 of 1168
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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth  |
Person ID | ||
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| 551 |  Kennedy, May Doreen | 27 Feb 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54697 |
| 552 | Kidd, Rodney James | I128881 | ||
| 553 | Kidwell, Craig | I46498 | ||
| 554 | Kidwell, Kerry Leigh | I46499 | ||
| 555 | Kidwell, Wade | I174563 | ||
| 556 | Kidwell, Yuleleen Molly | I174566 | ||
| 557 | Kimber, Briasn Roy | 29 May 1929 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177739 |
| 558 | King, Nolene Cheryl | I27297 | ||
| 559 | Kingsbury-Ellis, Joyce Sally | I104051 | ||
| 560 | Kirkman, Ada Emma | 13 Dec 1854 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168170 |
| 561 | Kirkman, Alfred Newton | 12 Dec 1856 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168171 |
| 562 | Kirkman, Frederick Joseph | 29 Mar 1858 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164912 |
| 563 | Kirkman, Gaye | I41064 | ||
| 564 | Kirkman, Hannah Matilda | 15 Oct 1853 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168169 |
| 565 | Kirkman, Herbert John | 30 Sep 1862 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168173 |
| 566 | Kirkman, Scott | I41066 | ||
| 567 | Klomfass, Rene Ann | I32449 | ||
| 568 | Klomfass, Wayne John | I32448 | ||
| 569 | Knox, Anthony | I28858 | ||
| 570 | Konigkramer, Phyllis Irene | 21 Jul 1911 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46123 |
| 571 | Lambeth, Jill Margaret | I26378 | ||
| 572 | Lambeth, Phillip Alan | I26377 | ||
| 573 | Lambie, Colleen Phyllis | I104415 | ||
| 574 | Lander, Gloria Charlotte | I165259 | ||
| 575 | Lang, Sarah Lee | I112272 | ||
| 576 | Lavender, Bruce William | I32442 | ||
| 577 | Lavender, Gillian Michele | I32443 | ||
| 578 | Lavender, Nicola Jane | I32446 | ||
| 579 | Lavender, Ryne Leonard | I32447 | ||
| 580 | Lawrence, Michael | I2580 | ||
| 581 | Lawson, Constance Jeanne | 4 Aug 1907 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I9890 |
| 582 | Le Roux, Susanna Johanna Magrieta | I36625 | ||
| 583 | Leach, Susan Mary | I129937 | ||
| 584 | Lee, Candice | I112822 | ||
| 585 | Lee, Craig John | 7 May 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112823 |
| 586 | Leech, Florence Emma | 10 May 1898 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143765 |
| 587 | Leech, Frank | 8 Apr 1863 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165458 |
| 588 | Leech, Joe | 12 May 1865 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143764 |
| 589 | Leech, Loyal Victor | 7 Aug 1900 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143773 |
| 590 | Leech, Thomas Spencer | 8 Feb 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165459 |
| 591 | Leefe, Margaret | I26742 | ||
| 592 | Lelong, Carter | I175992 | ||
| 593 | Lelong, Chantelle | I175993 | ||
| 594 | Lelong, Donovan | I175990 | ||
| 595 | Lelong, Gary | I175987 | ||
| 596 | Lelong, Louis Edmond | 19 Oct 1926 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175986 |
| 597 | Lelong, Sharon Linda Bernadette | I175945 | ||
| 598 | Leppan, Dennis Miller | I32503 | ||
| 599 | Leppan, Kerry-Jane | I32507 | ||
| 600 | Leppan, Nicholas James | I32508 | ||
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| Last Name, Given Name(s) |
Death |
Person ID | ||
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| 551 | Pike, Florence May | 7 Feb 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143670 |
| 552 | Pike, Ivy Harriet | 3 Aug 1969 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143673 |
| 553 | Pike, Joan | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143791 | |
| 554 | Pike, Joseph | 14 Jan 1902 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143668 |
| 555 | Pike, Roland William | 12 Jun 1953 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143682 |
| 556 | Pike, Sophia Elizabeth Usher | 18 Oct 1933 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143669 |
| 557 | Pitcher, Jack Clifford | 2 Jun 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115768 |
| 558 | Pittaway, Mary Emily Smith | 26 May 1933 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158099 |
| 559 | Popham, Fanny Susan | 2 Sep 1975 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I182232 |
| 560 | Potgieter, Johanna Maria | 6 Aug 1934 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I38661 |
| 561 | Powell, Arthur Garfield | 2 Aug 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35825 |
| 562 | Price, Jennifer Gwynith | 13 Apr 2013 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175953 |
| 563 | Price, Thomas Nutter | 23 Jan 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130295 |
| 564 | Pringle, Elizabeth Hepburn | 6 Sep 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I29986 |
| 565 | Pucher, Alexander Hugo | 8 Mar 1951 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101286 |
| 566 | Putterill, Thomas Oliver | 31 Jul 1912 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I161795 |
| 567 | Ralph, Clarence George | Aft 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I155944 |
| 568 | Randall, Jocelyn Maeve | 18 May 1985 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I51120 |
| 569 | Ras, William | 30 Aug 1985 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I46140 |
| 570 | Read, Mary Edith | 1949 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I151935 |
| 571 | Redpath, Ivy Evelyn | 16 Dec 1973 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I150322 |
| 572 | Redpath, Thomas Rigby | 13 Mar 1937 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I150326 |
| 573 | Reed, Dorothy Augusta Milbank | 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78927 |
| 574 | Reed, George Thomas | 15 Apr 1897 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78908 |
| 575 | Reed, George Thomas | 9 Jun 1974 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78963 |
| 576 | Reed, Kathleen Constance | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78926 |
| 577 | Reyneke, Adam Johannes | 11 Jul 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45433 |
| 578 | Reynolds, Glenmore Douglas | 31 Dec 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45454 |
| 579 | Reynolds, Molly | 31 Jul 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I124806 |
| 580 | Reynolds, Neville Graham | 1 Aug 2005 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I90155 |
| 581 | Rheeders, Sylvia | 10 Apr 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I114642 |
| 582 | Richards, Harry | 1909 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130308 |
| 583 | Richards, Kate | 1892 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130307 |
| 584 | Richardson, Hector Charles | 20 Aug 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132413 |
| 585 | Richardson, Mary Elizabeth | 10 Feb 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158415 |
| 586 | Ricketts, Arthur Charles | 19 Jun 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130632 |
| 587 | Ridsdale, Alfred | 13 Feb 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143675 |
| 588 | Riggien, Amy Myrtle | 24 Apr 1947 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I53023 |
| 589 | Riggien, Hilda Dorothy | 30 Nov 1984 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I52985 |
| 590 | Riggs, Albertina Louisa | 1 Jan 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128542 |
| 591 | Roberts, Herbert Cornelius | 21 Feb 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102552 |
| 592 | Roberts, Hugh Henry | 2 May 1998 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57133 |
| 593 | Roberts, Marjorie Ann | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57134 | |
| 594 | Robinson, William Rose | 3 Jan 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I75820 |
| 595 | Robson, William Edward | 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I147590 |
| 596 | Ross, Isobel Winsome | 17 Jan 2019 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174562 |
| 597 | Ross, John | 5 Oct 1971 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107942 |
| 598 | Rosslee, James Robert | 15 Nov 1938 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102522 |
| 599 | Rowland, Gwendoline | 1965 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143032 |
| 600 | Rowlands, Leo | 9 Apr 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I102470 |
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