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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| 751 |  Bosch, Daniel Johannes Paulus | 8 Jan 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175231 |
| 752 | Bowker, Ronald James | 18 Mar 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120872 |
| 753 | Halse, Clive Grey | 28 May 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I119918 |
| 754 | Cawood, Frances Julia | 31 May 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I123764 |
| 755 | Makings, Hercules Ingoldsby | 12 Jun 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101414 |
| 756 | Horwitz, Zena Sonja | 21 Aug 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I4731 |
| 757 | Sheppard, Beryl | 3 Nov 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120114 |
| 758 | Wilson, Alister Boswell | 30 Dec 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67768 |
| 759 | Sturgess, Beatrice | 12 Jan 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57132 |
| 760 | Morwood, Kathleen Maud Elizabeth | 17 Jan 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12669 |
| 761 | Breuer, Theodora Johanna Christina | 8 Feb 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120722 |
| 762 | Erasmus, Willem Petrus | 5 May 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I40544 |
| 763 | Lane, Peter Shales | 22 Jun 2003 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I126751 |
| 764 | Stott, Halley Harwin | 2004 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I120164 |
| 765 | Willmore, Edna Ethel Rex | 6 Mar 2004 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I22842 |
| 766 | Kidwell, Frederick Oswald Campbell | 18 Jun 2004 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174561 |
| 767 | Dale, Hilda Constance | 23 Dec 2004 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128110 |
| 768 | Reynolds, Neville Graham | 1 Aug 2005 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I90155 |
| 769 | Fourie, Elsje Amarentia Maria | 12 Aug 2005 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112355 |
| 770 | Thompson, Douglas Vernon | 9 Oct 2005 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I160445 |
| 771 | Olive, Leonard Frederick | 2006 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I78748 |
| 772 | Krige, Wininfred Joan | 10 Mar 2006 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I121197 |
| 773 | Bodley, Richard John Robert | 18 Mar 2006 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164398 |
| 774 | Bradfield, Beatrice May | 3 May 2006 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173855 |
| 775 | van den Heuvel, Hendrik Frederik Johannes | 7 Sep 2006 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112932 |
| 776 | Mardon, Kingsley Joseph | 11 Feb 2007 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I49224 |
| 777 | Shepstone, Poppy Gloria | 8 Oct 2007 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58890 |
| 778 | Graham, Sylvia Pamela | 2008 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110555 |
| 779 | Saunders, Denham William | 2 Jul 2008 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I112825 |
| 780 | Sissison, John Campbell Faulding | 29 Jul 2008 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152851 |
| 781 | Whitfield, Owen Kenneth | 31 Dec 2012 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I87939 |
| 782 | Price, Jennifer Gwynith | 13 Apr 2013 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175953 |
| 783 | Brent, Alan Charlton | 5 Aug 2013 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I82221 |
| 784 | Cloete, Ann | 2014 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173268 |
| 785 | Musto, Linda Lillian | 27 Nov 2014 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I179088 |
| 786 | McKenzie, Doreen Beatrice | 2015 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166408 |
| 787 | McKenzie, Margaret Stuart | 2016 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166409 |
| 788 | Wallace, Cora Marie | 11 Feb 2016 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I154158 |
| 789 | Bosch, Samuel Stefanus | 11 Oct 2016 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175234 |
| 790 | Niewoudt, Elizabeth | 7 Nov 2016 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175989 |
| 791 | Lelong, Louis Edmond | 4 Jul 2017 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175986 |
| 792 | Miller, Russel Sydney | 26 Jul 2017 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I154157 |
| 793 | Kennedy, Lynnette Anne | 2018 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I181936 |
| 794 | Walker, Anthony David Mortimer | 17 Sep 2018 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I103688 |
| 795 | Biggs, Christopher Munro | 23 Oct 2018 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I139629 |
| 796 | Ross, Isobel Winsome | 17 Jan 2019 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I174562 |
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