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 |  Cato, Christopher Joseph | 20 Mar 1867 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I132681 |
| 752 | Vinnicombe, George | 18 Oct 1863 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I124048 |
| 753 | Fynn, Henry Francis | 20 Sep 1861 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I6014 |
| 754 | Chapman, James Jex | 14 Sep 1861 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I178599 |
| 755 | Kennedy, James Heathcote | 10 Mar 1859 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I74717 |
| 756 | Philipps, Emma 1820 Settler | 20 Jul 1858 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3000 |
| 757 | Heathcote, George Gage | 1 Jan 1854 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I3001 |
| 758 | Griffin, Henry James | 13 Oct 1853 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I178641 |
| 759 | Kirkman, Hannah Matilda | 1853 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I168169 |
| 760 | Evans, Ann Julia | 1 Jan 1852 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I4869 |
| 761 | Cayzer, Julia Ann | 15 Dec 1851 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I4868 |
| 762 | Calverley, James 1820 Settler | 5 Dec 1850 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39559 |
| 763 | Cato, William Henry | 1844 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I130340 |
| 764 | Clarke, Elizabeth Isabella | 1793 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I50029 |
| 765 | Wilmot, Alexander William | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I66053 | |
| 766 | Whittal, Reuben Richard | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45544 | |
| 767 | Whitfield, George Robert | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I87944 | |
| 768 | Webster, Neville James | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I141297 | |
| 769 | Walsh, William Herbert | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152385 | |
| 770 | Thompson, Ivan Gerald | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I117033 | |
| 771 | Spencer, Annie Norah | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143790 | |
| 772 | Selby, Mervyn Clitheroe | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I51980 | |
| 773 | Scrooby, Norman Lovell | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145214 | |
| 774 | Scrooby, Noel Darcy | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145215 | |
| 775 | Scrooby, Ivy Ethel | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145209 | |
| 776 | Scrooby, Edmund Algernon | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145208 | |
| 777 | Scrooby, Dorothy Sybil | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145212 | |
| 778 | Scrooby, Algeny Howsen | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I145210 | |
| 779 | Roberts, Marjorie Ann | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57134 | |
| 780 | Pike, Joan | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143791 | |
| 781 | Newton, Madeline Blanche | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I54252 | |
| 782 | Muter, Alice Holland | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177728 | |
| 783 | Munro, Norman Arthur | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128289 | |
| 784 | Munro, Dorothea Hendrina | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I139628 | |
| 785 | Miller, Ronald Stanley | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I38353 | |
| 786 | Mackenzie, Una | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I1494 | |
| 787 | Lloyd, Lillian Pansy Clementine | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14894 | |
| 788 | Liversage, Henry | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36710 | |
| 789 | Joubert, Johanna Alletta | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I149316 | |
| 790 | Jordan, Martha Margaret | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142316 | |
| 791 | Devlin, Robert Mylo | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I131795 | |
| 792 | Daniel, Wilfred Basil | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107395 | |
| 793 | Currin, Edwin Clarence | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I60530 | |
| 794 | Campbell, Marilyn Sue | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I110468 | |
| 795 | Brickhill, Quentin Guy | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I121812 | |
| 796 | Pamela | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I33693 | |
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