Brief Life History of Tuia Palea
When Tuia Palea Ah Kan was born on 29 December 1958, in Fasito'o Tai, A'ana, Upolu, Samoa, her father, Palea Masagamaleao Ah Kan, was 58 and her mother, Vaimoe Upu Esekielu, was 34. She died on 3 December 2003, in her hometown, at the age of 44, and was buried in Fasito'o Tai, A'ana, Upolu, Samoa.
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1962
Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
1997
Western Samoa changes its name to Samoa, a move which causes some tension with American Samoa.
Name Meaning
Chinese: from the vocative prefix 阿 or 亞, used before Chinese personal names (mainly monosyllabic personal names) and kinship terms, particularly in central and southern China.
History: Among early Chinese immigrants in the US, Chinese names prefixed by Ah were widely recorded in the US federal censuses. Ah appears to have been adopted as a new surname by some of the descendants of those early Chinese immigrants.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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