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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| 651 |  Sparks, Nellie May | 1 Jul 1970 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3114 |
| 652 | Sparks, Stanley Norman | 20 Feb 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173210 |
| 653 | Spencer, Annie Norah | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143790 | |
| 654 | Spiller, Charles James | 20 May 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I29159 |
| 655 | Stanton, William Walter | 1932 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I16730 |
| 656 | Stayner, Maureen Caroline | 2 Jan 1989 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I94734 |
| 657 | Steel, Lillian Elizabeth | 12 Oct 1976 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116431 |
| 658 | Steel, Llandell Redvers | 6 Jun 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125073 |
| 659 | Stephenson, Ryan | 17 Jun 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I32404 |
| 660 | Sterley, Claude Vincent | 14 Jun 1984 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115775 |
| 661 | Sterley, George Albert | 30 Oct 1983 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116153 |
| 662 | Sterley, Ronald Henley | 16 Oct 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116299 |
| 663 | Sterley, Vincent Patrick | 25 Jul 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I115771 |
| 664 | Sterley, William Edward Henley | 9 Apr 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I116211 |
| 665 | Stewart, Ethel Daisy | 22 Nov 1962 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I126718 |
| 666 | Stokes, Ellen Jane | 14 Oct 1937 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131649 |
| 667 | Stone, Alexander Blackwood | 23 Jul 1910 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14439 |
| 668 | Stone, John Edward | 1984 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45458 |
| 669 | Stone, Marian Alice | 12 Jun 1974 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54684 |
| 670 | Stone, Robert Cunningham | 24 Apr 1926 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54679 |
| 671 | Stott, Halley Harwin | 2004 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120164 |
| 672 | Stow, Edward Amos Theodore | 30 Jul 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I72043 |
| 673 | Strachan, Helen Maud | 2 Dec 1985 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59714 |
| 674 | Stranger, Maud | 1975 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I66362 |
| 675 | Stretch, Charles Lennox | 20 Sep 1942 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I156683 |
| 676 | Sturgess, Beatrice | 12 Jan 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57132 |
| 677 | Sturgess, Frank | 21 Apr 1997 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57137 |
| 678 | Swart, Susanna Margaretha | 28 Jul 1940 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I38450 |
| 679 | Swindale, Madeline | 28 Nov 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I76183 |
| 680 | Symons, John Philip | 31 May 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157086 |
| 681 | Tarr, Dennis | 15 Jan 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I97976 |
| 682 | Tarr, Leonora Alice | 9 May 1938 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I18384 |
| 683 | Tarr, Selina Clifford | 23 Mar 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15310 |
| 684 | Taylor, Leonard Shirley | 1983 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23096 |
| 685 | Taylor, Yvonne | 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103106 |
| 686 | Tennant, Martha Lockhart | 7 Aug 1992 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I134275 |
| 687 | Tennis, Ian | 13 Oct 1991 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I41586 |
| 688 | Thacker, Matilda Lavinia | 6 Aug 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I162988 |
| 689 | Thomas, Clarice Olive | 1966 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101383 |
| 690 | Thompson, Douglas Vernon | 9 Oct 2005 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I160445 |
| 691 | Thompson, Ivan Gerald | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I117033 | |
| 692 | Thomson, Diana Mifanwy | 13 Aug 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I26741 |
| 693 | Thomson, Edmund Antrobus | 27 Mar 1949 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15195 |
| 694 | Thornton, Ann Evelyn | 15 Jan 1981 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131586 |
| 695 | Thornton, May Sheila | 14 May 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131683 |
| 696 | Timm, Robin Kennith | 17 Feb 1988 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I77784 |
| 697 | Topham, Thomas Edward | Abt 1868 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143685 |
| 698 | Towning, Frederick Thomas | 12 Jan 1879 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I89554 |
| 699 | Tratt, Barry David | 1985 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I138995 |
| 700 | Treadway, Nora | 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152762 |
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