Researched and compiled by Duncan Du Bois.
Fowey Road: No local connection, however Fowey is a borough in Cornwall.
Garmouth Avenue: No local link. Name of a village in Moray, NE Scotland.
Garside Road: No link traced.
Gidd Road: Lieutenant Charles Gibb was part of the British military detachment which took charge of Natal after the colony was annexed in 1843.
Goutsberg Place: Would seem to be named after Hendrick Goutsberg who was associated with the visit of the Dutch ship Noord to the Bay of Natal in 1690 and who subsequently was co-editor of a journal relating to outposts of the Dutch empire. His testament dated 1731 is in the Cape archives.
Grafton Street: Richard William Grafton was a 1850 British settler.
Gregory Place: Thomas George and Jacob Davis Gregory were 1850 British settlers.
Grenville Road: No local link. Maybe named after an Elizabethan sea captain, Richard Grenville, who fought the Spanish in 1591.
Greyling Place: Named after Piet Greyling, a Voortrekker, who in 1839 proceeded to lay out plots in a settlement to be known as Pietermaritzburg.
Hathaway Road: No local relevance. In all probability named after Ann Hathaway, Shakespeare’s wife.
Highbury Road: Another British connection to a suburb of North London.
Hillhead Road: No local significance but Hillhead is a district of Glasgow.
Hopkins Road: Named after the 1850 settler John Hopkins who once resided with his wife Emily in West Street.
Ivernia Road: No local link however, it could be named after a road in Walton, Liverpool, or after a Cunard liner which was torpedoed and sunk near Greece in 1917.
Kingsclere Road: There is no local link. It is the name of a large village in Hampshire.
Kingsley Road: No trace. It is unlikely to have been named after AJ Kingsley, a dispenser who was dismissed for neglect of duty from Durban Hospital in 1881.
Kiora Road: Given its proximity to the ocean, mythologically the name refers to God of the Sea and also to crashing waves.
Kinross Road: No local link, the name of a county in Eastern Scotland.
Kirkman Crescent: Joseph Kirkman’s roots as an early settler date back to 1840. He accompanied George Cato on many ventures and was still living in 1868 when Cato referred to him in a letter.
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