I can live with not knowing more than: Heinrich Küper (died 1950), born in Hamburg, anglified into Henry (or Henri) Kuper (after arriving, and onwards, in the Salomons) ... etc., etc., with details and events as earlier mentioned in this thread.
If we´re to trust the Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia in their claim that he; " ... maintained his German citizenship" (and I see no reason to doubt that certain detail) I would say his name was written Heinrich Küper – even if not used with that certain spelling at all, or only occationaly, in everyday life on those Islands – the umlaut later being droped all together by his Children, like (for example) as in the quotes in Post #10, Albert Kupert, his second Son, as well as by his Grandchildren, the latters are still around, quite a few of them, on the same Islands. That they talk of their Grandfather as Henry Kuper (he is mentioned, as such, in several texts published recently, in travel-blogs, articles of the Islands, on local trade, culture, etc., etc.) is nothing strange. Not to me, at least ...
Either way, I will not continue the search for Mr. Küper. He was only a side-track, in my MS and notes he´s barely mentioned (maybe he´ll be left out all-together, in the end) ... and I will stop here, there´s too many other obscure and intriguing etymologies in my pipe-line.
If anyone else feel like keeping up the search for Heinrich Küper, and this thread boiling, please do ... if so: Good luck!
Mr. Küper (on my behalf) ... over and out!
