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Edward Thonen
Edward Thonen (27 May 1827 – 3 December 1854) was a German emigrant to Australia, and one of the miners involved in the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. He was captain of one of the miners' divisions. When soldiers stormed the Stockade on 3 December 1854, Thonen was one of the first to be killed in the Battle of the Eureka Stockade. Prior to his emigration to Australia in 1853, Thonen gained notoriety as a jewellery thief in England. The story of his capture on a ship Great Orme, off the coast of Wales was widely publicised. It even reached Australia in the 1890s, although nobody at the time made the connection between the diamond robbery and the events at Eureka. The two incidents were only connected in 2022, by a collaboration of researchers on the genealogy website WikiTree, whose results were later published by the Ballarat and District Genealogical Society. Biography Early life Thonen was born Eduard Thönen, in the district of Elberfeld, Rhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elberfeld
Elberfeld is a municipal subdivision of the German city of Wuppertal; it was an independent town until 1929. History The first official mentioning of the geographic area on the banks of today's Wupper River as "''elverfelde''" was in a document of 1161. Etymologically, ''elver'' is derived from the old Low German word for "river." (See etymology of the name of the German Elbe River; cf. North Germanic ''älv''.) Therefore, the original meaning of "elverfelde" can be understood as "field on the river." Elverfelde received its town charter in 1610. In 1726, Elias Eller and a pastor, Daniel Schleyermacher, founded a Philadelphian society. They later moved to Ronsdorf in the Duchy of Berg, becoming the Zionites, a fringe sect. In 1826 Friedrich Harkort, a famous German industrialist and politician, had a type of suspension railway built as a trial and ran it on the grounds of what is today the tax office at Elberfeld. In fact the railway, the Schwebebahn Wuppertal, was eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
