When Adi Arieta Koila was born in 1839, in Tailevu, Central, Fiji, her father, Ratu Seru Epenisa Cakobau, was 39 and her mother, Adi Litia Samanunu, was 23. She married Ratu Timoci Vakaruru Qiolevu about 1861, in Naitasiri, Central, Fiji. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1887, in her hometown, at the age of 48, and was buried in Fiji.
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First Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Lakeba.
The 11 year war. On a June morning the Roko Tui Dreketi, Banuve, was invited aboard Cakobau's canoe, Ra Marama, where he was to formally accept Cakobau's offer of peace, but no sooner had he stepped on board when Cakobau split his head with his battle axe. Chief Cakobau gains control of most of western Fiji, while another Christian convert, Ma'afu from Tonga, controls the east.
Cakobau sells Suva, the current capital of Fiji, to an Australian company.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nels. Finnish Reino, Waino.
Finnish:
habitational name from any of various farms named with Finnish koti ‘home’ + the locative suffix -la.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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