Brief Life History of Uili Fonoti
When Uili Fonoti Mata'u was born on 8 June 1910, in Fogasavaii, Satupa'itea, Savai'i, Samoa, his father, Tolouli Mata'u, was 17 and his mother, Simaota Lauafia, was 25. He married Tapena Saimasina Su'a Tuipelehake in 1940. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died about 1990, at the age of 81.
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1914
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).
1939
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
1962
Western Samoa becomes independent, the first Pacific island nation to do so.
Name Meaning
Polish and Croatian: from a pet form of local equivalents of the Latin personal names Matthaeus and Matthias (see Matthew ), such as Polish Maciej , Croatian Matej .
Somali: from the personal name Matan, meaning ‘twin’. — Note: Since Somalis traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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