When 'Anitelu Lelenoa was born about 1821, in Kolofoóu, Tongatapu, Tonga, his father, Paula Malele 'a e tau, was 26 and his mother, Mele Maumi Fakahafua, was 22. He married Funaki in 1833, in Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga. He died about 1891, in his hometown, at the age of 70, and was buried in Kolofoóu, Tongatapu, Tonga.