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Benjamin
William Caney m. Ellen
Calvert
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William Harry
Caney m. 1) ?, 2) Mary Beatrice Meikle
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Frederick Caney
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Frederick Benjamin
Wilson m. Winifred Tillet
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William Winn
Wilson m. Kate Elizabeth Hind Wood
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Clive Calvert
Wilson m. Lucie Augultin
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Colin Wilson
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Patrick Francis Wilson
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Angus Frank
Wilson
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Lionel Rhodes
Caney m. Gladys Lilian Upward
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Valerie Ena Caney
m. Roy Benoit Carter
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Gladys Ellen
Caney m. William Grubb Dargie
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Benjamin Augustin
Caney m. 1) Eileen Myriam Jordan, 2) Johanna Catharina Therond Uys
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Madge Violet
Caney m. Frank Mason Blunden
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Donald Calvert
McDonald m. Moira Jameson Downing
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Guy Wilson McDonald
m. Doreen Harwin
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Ivan Chelmsford
McDonald m. Mary Caroline Wilson
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Valmai Elizabeth
Caney m. 1) Frederick Slingsby Mann, 2) Gavin Jack
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Vivienne Frank
Caney m. 1) Basil Alan Rutherford, 2) John Thomas Morley Erskine
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Benjamin and Ellen made their home in the top floor of the 3-story West-Street building in which the business was founded and in which their three sons that were to takeover the business were born. This "scyscraper" was later pronounced to be dangerous and the thrid floor removed. In the mid-nineteen hundreds, the property was sold to the Johannesburg Building Society, but the old firm continued its activities in the block, thriving for well over a hundred years. Ben Caney, a keen yachtsman, took a leading part in Durban's sporting and social life. |
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Benjamin Caney founded one of the first jewellery firms in Durban in
1860, the year that the second Prime Minister of Natal, Mr. Harry Escombe
landed in Durban, and the year before Benjamin's bride-to-be, Ellen,
arrived aboard the "Catherine" (September 1861) from England.
Durban had no harbour at the time, and the women were carried ashore
by the Zulu's. Ellen was apparrently terrified by the black faces, and
had to be carried ashore by the sailers. 
