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 901 to 950 of 1168
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Last Name, Given Name(s)  |
Birth  |
Person ID | ||
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| 901 |  Sefton, Lydia | I46423 | ||
| 902 | Sewell, Wilfred | 7 Dec 1899 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I142334 |
| 903 | Shand, Bronwyn Anne | I29045 | ||
| 904 | Shanley, Glen Terrance | I36815 | ||
| 905 | Sheldon, Geraldine Patrica | I101486 | ||
| 906 | Sheldon, Herbert Arnold | 27 Jun 1903 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101488 |
| 907 | Sheldon, Rex Massey | 28 Feb 1930 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101487 |
| 908 | Sheppard, Nicole Bianca | I30962 | ||
| 909 | Shepstone, Denis Gem (Hon) | 7 Feb 1888 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58734 |
| 910 | Shepstone, Denise Margaret | I127428 | ||
| 911 | Shepstone, Dorothy Vera | 25 Jun 1886 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58633 |
| 912 | Shepstone, Helen Louise | I127427 | ||
| 913 | Shepstone, Lulie Alice | Est 1877 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I58848 |
| 914 | Sherratt, Calvin Lee-Roy | I32460 | ||
| 915 | Sherratt, Cameron Lee | I32461 | ||
| 916 | Sherratt, Ronald Warren | I32456 | ||
| 917 | Sherratt, Shane Warren | I32457 | ||
| 918 | Sherratt, Shaun Warren | I32458 | ||
| 919 | Shone, Brett | I102922 | ||
| 920 | Shone, Kim Claudette | I113814 | ||
| 921 | Short, Thelma Iris | 18 Oct 1899 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101225 |
| 922 | Shuter, John David | 27 Jun 1864 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175930 |
| 923 | Simpson, Craig Alexander | I32469 | ||
| 924 | Sinclair, Dorothy Lovell | Abt 1895 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I152760 |
| 925 | Singery, Camille | I104713 | ||
| 926 | Singery, James Pierre | I84612 | ||
| 927 | Singery, Simone Caroline | I84611 | ||
| 928 | Sissons, Joan | I41496 | ||
| 929 | Skelton, Alwyn James | I152983 | ||
| 930 | Skelton, Jessica Deborah | I152988 | ||
| 931 | Skelton, Kevin Andrew | I152987 | ||
| 932 | Skelton, Nicholas Alwyn | I152986 | ||
| 933 | Smal, Shane John | I179489 | ||
| 934 | Small, Vivian | I176242 | ||
| 935 | Smith, David | I41524 | ||
| 936 | Smith, Kathleen Iva Royston | I2144 | ||
| 937 | Snow, Doreen | 1 Apr 1911 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I128792 |
| 938 | Southey, Amelia Kemsley Lovell | I36503 | ||
| 939 | Southey, Donald Bruce | I7564 | ||
| 940 | Southey, Eric Paul | I7565 | ||
| 941 | Southey, Jessica-Dawn Lovell | I36502 | ||
| 942 | Southey, Neil | I6343 | ||
| 943 | Spence, Wendy Esmé | I25763 | ||
| 944 | Squires, Allison Maureen | I102546 | ||
| 945 | Squires, Edward | I102543 | ||
| 946 | Squires, Jill Colette | I102545 | ||
| 947 | Squires, Kim Michael | I179313 | ||
| 948 | Squires, Lynn Beverley | I102544 | ||
| 949 | Staines, Douglas Maxwell Dudley | 13 Nov 1920 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I164819 |
| 950 | Starkey, Jason | I98739 | ||
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