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Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa



 


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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: 31.0259636


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Birth

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID 
751 Nicholson, Jenna-Lee   I74567
752 Nicholson, Kylie   I74568
753 Nicholson, Sabrina   I74539
754 Nicholson, Sibaya   I74540
755 Nicol, Dawne Valerie   I108805
756 Nicol, Keith Gavin   I108803
757 Nicol, Peter Ross  13 Mar 1918Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I108802
758 Nicol, Roger Booth   I108804
759 Nicolai, Frank Arthur  19 Apr 1872Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I103896
760 Niddrie, Ronald David   I127737
761 Norton, Lauren Judy   I105449
762 Norton, Raymond Gordon   I137662
763 Nussey, Natalie Francis   I143065
764 O'Brein, Patrick Edward  28 Nov 1951Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I79880
765 O'Brien, Patrick Edward  28 Nov 1951Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I45901
766 O'Connor, Colleen Patricia   I46429
767 O'Connor, Danielle Anne   I46433
768 O'Connor, Garth Verdum   I46431
769 O'Connor, Kevin Patrick   I46430
770 O'Connor, Leanne Jane   I46432
771 O'Connor, Verdun Stanley  22 May 1924Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I46427
772 O'Leary, Scott   I111337
773 Odendaal, Natalie   I112341
774 Odendaal, Tanya   I112340
775 Olivier, Gavin John   I21371
776 Olivier, John Clifford Standing   I21370
777 Ollis, Clinton   I111231
778 Ollis, Craig   I111230
779 Orsmond, Andrew   I25879
780 Orsmond, David   I25878
781 Orsmond, Kingsley Patrick   I157228
782 Osborne, Eileen Sarah   I84899
783 Osborne, Jeanette Ida   I84901
784 Packer, Eva  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I110553
785 Palmer, Louise Margaret Rose  26 Jul 1937Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I23457
786 Parfitt, Courtenay Royston  13 Jan 1899Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I58938
787 Parker, Allan   I122461
788 Parker, Annie Miriam   I126410
789 Parker, Eva Mildred  12 Oct 1918Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I122460
790 Parker, Phyllis Mabel   I126412
791 Parrott, Carol Linda   I80218
792 Paterson, Adrian   I73558
793 Paterson, Neil   I22393
794 Pearse, Ronald Shepstone  31 May 1921Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I58637
795 Pearse, Vera Joan   I58635
796 Perks, Bjorn   I85888
797 Petersen, Karen Leigh   I181503
798 Petersen, Warren Mark   I181504
799 Pettit, Beverley Ann   I84511
800 Pettit, Dawn Glynnis   I84513

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Death

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   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Death    Person ID 
751 White, Ellen Lucie Margaret  14 Aug 1947Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I112899
752 White, Oliver Griffin  27 Sep 1930Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I130396
753 White, Pemberton Holmes  27 Jan 1927Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I130391
754 Whitfield, Everton Llewellyn  9 Feb 1974Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I46414
755 Whitfield, George Robert  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I87944
756 Whitfield, Owen Kenneth  31 Dec 2012Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I87939
757 Whiting, Mary  16 Nov 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I14441
758 Whittal, Ann Elizabeth  19 Aug 1958Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I18244
759 Whittal, Arthur  23 Sep 1924Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I45562
760 Whittal, John Francis Annan  10 Jul 1939Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I18146
761 Whittal, Reuben Cliffort  22 Jun 1925Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I18157
762 Whittal, Reuben Richard  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I45544
763 Whittal, Sydney King  26 Jul 1967Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I18160
764 Whittle, James Mortimer  15 Nov 1991Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I140523
765 Wiggill, Eric James Victor  15 May 1983Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I115433
766 Wiggill, Gladys  28 Jun 1973Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I88582
767 Wiggill, Olive Ames  20 Sep 1973Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I115487
768 Williams, Alan Couts  15 Sep 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I38362
769 Williams, Edna Elizabeth Elsie  30 Oct 2001Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I135870
770 Williams, Henry Murray Chawner  7 Sep 1903Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I3816
771 Williams, Lilian Margaret  31 Oct 1936Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I142962
772 Williams, Martin Vincent  10 Jul 1981Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I108853
773 Willmore, Edna Ethel Rex  6 Mar 2004Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I22842
774 Wilmot, Alexander William  Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I66053
775 Wilmot, Selina Maud  24 May 1976Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I58282
776 Wilson, Alister Boswell  30 Dec 2002Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I67768
777 Wilson, Eileen Jessie  17 Jun 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I67769
778 Wilson, Robert (Robby) Hogarth  30 May 1987Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I67767
779 Wilson, William Buchanan (Billy)  27 Aug 1965Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I67763
780 Woods, Charles Aldridge  24 Sep 1961Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I56949
781 Woods, Frederick Theodore  24 May 1941Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I156977
782 Wright, Basil Eric  21 Jul 1977Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I102548
783 Wright, Hilda Mabel  29 Jul 1965Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I102499
784 Wright, Hugh Clarence  20 Feb 1964Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I102503
785 Wright, Joseph Cecil Llewellyn Alexis  1 May 1967Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I27261
786 Wright, Joseph Sydney  7 Jul 1971Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I102501
787 Wright, Muriel Florence  5 Jan 1968Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I102521
788 Wright, Woodley Boscawen  28 Aug 1934Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I166715
789 Yakles, Charlotte  Abt Feb 1970Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I78494
790 Zimmerman, Valerie Mary  28 Mar 1979Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I12709
791 de Jager, Bertha Olive Agnes  5 Jun 1966Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I108202
792 de Witt, Emmet Walton  Abt 1978Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I103538
793 van Blommenstein, Agatha Wilhelmina  20 Apr 1919Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I121005
794 van Gend, Michael Eric  13 Jul 1988Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I113214
795 van Onselen, Maria Magdalena  1941Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I177726
796 van den Heuvel, Hendrik Frederik Johannes  7 Sep 2006Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa I112932

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