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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| 401 |  Lee, Ann Trotter | 19 May 1958 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I69039 |
| 402 | Lee, Frank Reay | 27 Jul 1936 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I105039 |
| 403 | Lee, Redvers Henry Woodroff | 26 Nov 1984 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125063 |
| 404 | Leech, Joe | 3 Oct 1936 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I143764 |
| 405 | Leech, Thomas Spencer | 28 Apr 1925 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165459 |
| 406 | Leech, William | 7 Jan 1896 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I165457 |
| 407 | Lelong, Louis Edmond | 4 Jul 2017 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I175986 |
| 408 | Leo, Ian Lancelot | 13 Jul 1982 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I53287 |
| 409 | Leo-Smith, Ryle | 1987 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I67846 |
| 410 | Leppan, Clarice Maud | Jan 1994 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I59757 |
| 411 | Leppan, Iris Doreen | 23 May 1984 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125512 |
| 412 | Leppan, Kathleen Claire | 1 May 1941 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I125513 |
| 413 | Leppan, Wilfred Clyde St Clair | 17 Jan 1941 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I28556 |
| 414 | Letty, Frances Josephine | 17 Mar 1961 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I35897 |
| 415 | Lewis, Edith Constance | 25 Sep 1955 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I18161 |
| 416 | Lewis, Ruby | 23 Mar 1963 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I45550 |
| 417 | Liversage, Henry | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I36710 | |
| 418 | Lloyd, Gavin Rick | 19 Nov 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I133275 |
| 419 | Lloyd, Gertrude Olivia | 3 Apr 1944 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12342 |
| 420 | Lloyd, Lillian Pansy Clementine | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I14894 | |
| 421 | Lloyd, Olive Weymouth | 12 Mar 1972 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I11662 |
| 422 | Lloyd, Sidney Reuben | 16 Dec 1981 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15004 |
| 423 | Lloyd, Walter Edward | 31 Jul 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I151804 |
| 424 | Loose, Edith Elizabeth | 13 Mar 1934 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I157675 |
| 425 | Lovemore, Harry Carrington | 31 Dec 1945 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15434 |
| 426 | Lovemore, Yvonne | 1993 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I15354 |
| 427 | Lucas, Charles Samuel | 10 Apr 1937 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I39597 |
| 428 | Lundall, Elizabeth | 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177785 |
| 429 | Lundall, Rachel Maris-Stella | 3 Feb 1981 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I177788 |
| 430 | Lupke, Petty Mona | 14 Aug 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I47256 |
| 431 | Lutman, Andrew | 26 Jun 1921 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I23905 |
| 432 | MacGillvray, Frances Elizabeth | 1 Feb 1954 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166776 |
| 433 | MacGillvray, Hephizibah Effie Beatrice | 1978 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I166791 |
| 434 | MacMaster, Amy Maitland (Tame) | 7 Feb 1939 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I124984 |
| 435 | Mackenzie, Una | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I1494 | |
| 436 | Magri-Overend, Lily | 13 Oct 1986 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I5266 |
| 437 | Maker, John William | 4 Nov 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I173107 |
| 438 | Makings, Hercules Ingoldsby | 12 Jun 2002 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101414 |
| 439 | Mallett, Harry Trecoombe | 2 Jun 1960 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I153560 |
| 440 | Mandy, Stephen Day Locke | 25 Apr 1977 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I81948 |
| 441 | Manham, Alice Maud Hester | 8 Aug 1979 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I122443 |
| 442 | Marais, Catharina Cornelia | 28 Sep 1959 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I12119 |
| 443 | Marais, John Lodwyk | 14 Oct 1996 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I57531 |
| 444 | Mardon, Kingsley Joseph | 11 Feb 2007 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I49224 |
| 445 | Marshall, Mary Marcella | 1964 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I37006 |
| 446 | Martin, Brian Edward | 4 Jul 2001 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I158679 |
| 447 | Massey-Hicks, Aileen Patricia | 19 Jul 1980 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101422 |
| 448 | Massey-Hicks, Forbes Hercules | 25 Mar 1943 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101301 |
| 449 | Massey-Hicks, Vincent Claude | 18 Sep 1954 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I101354 |
| 450 | Mast, Catherine Beatrice Adeline | 17 Oct 1968 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | I107832 |
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| Family |
Marriage |
Family ID | ||
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| 401 | Zeeman / Scott | 24 Dec 1901 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F59514 |
| 402 | van Outdshoorn / Reynolds | F29391 | ||
| 403 | van Reenen Mostert / Cleenwerk | F43565 | ||
| 404 | van Rooyen / Moore | 20 Apr 1922 | Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | F63419 |
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