When Taiaga Sifou Tuipelehake was born on 10 February 1906, in Salelavalu, Samoa, her father, Sifou Saimasina Su'a, was 32 and her mother, Faaeteete Sagitoa Pulumatau Tuioti, was 28. She married Fesaesaea'i, Moemai Sila Fesaesaea’i about 1920, in Iva, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. She died about 1980, in Samoa, at the age of 75, and was buried in Salafai, Samoa.
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New Zealand occupies Western Samoa during World War I and continues to administer it after the war by virtue of a League of Nations mandate (and a United Nations mandate after World War II).
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Casimir, Mieczyslaw, Zdzislaw.
Polish: nickname for an unsteady person, from Old Polish talaga ‘rickety wagon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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