Inuk Pavia Peter Luplau Janssen

Inuk Peter Pavia Luplau Janssen, was born in the village of Godthab, Greenland on the 4th of June 1855, to parents Carl Emil Janssen and Louise Sophie Frederikke Luplau. His father Carl Emil was an influential Danish missionary, who was sent to Greenland to convert and educate the Inuit’s. Together Carl and Louise operated a Seminary School that taught the Eskimos about rituals and the Lutheran beliefs. When his father Carl, took ill the entire family including little Inuk returned to Denmark, it was here that Inuk stayed until he immigrated to Australia. Inuk left Hamburg, Germany aboard the ship “Fritz Reuter”, it arrived in Melbourne on the 23rd of August 1876. Inuk immediately applied for naturalisation, this was granted on the 16th of December 1883. Upon his arrival Inuk lived at Graham Hill near Creswick with distant relatives, before settling in Ballarat. It was in Ballarat that Inuk met a local Ballarat born woman named Margaret Elizabeth Catherine Scopie. Margaret and Inuk got married on the 1st of December 1886, in Ballarat, Victoria. Together with his wife Margaret, Inuk moved to Albert Street, Sebastopol where he found work in the mines. Inuk first took interest in a claim in Bald Hills, known as the North Midas Consols, he only mined this for a short time before focussing on mines closer to his home in Sebastopol. The next mining venture for Inuk was as the Mine Manager of the Sebastopol Plateau Company for 2 years, beginning in 1887 whilst Inuk had control of the claim it was developed in to 2 separate Mining Companies, Sebastopol Plateau No. 1 Company and Sebastopol Plateau No. 2 Company. It was during this period of immense success that Inuk also raised a young family, his eldest son Carl was born in 1887, his eldest daughter Beatrice was born in 1889, his youngest son Ernek was born in 1890. His youngest daughter Naja Alice was not born until 1900. The young family was raised in Albert Street, Sebastopol, near the Carmel Welsh Church. Sebastopol at this stage was a thriving gold mining town. Naja Kilde : Carissah Cain-Sultana