Brief Life History of Salima Tautaioleua
Salima Tautaioleua Malietoa was born on 12 January 1827, in Sapapalii, Samoa as the son of Tautaioleua I Vai’inupo Malietoa and Luka TualaTamalelagi. He married Lea'auta Alalatoa Namulau'ulu on 12 December 1848, in Savai'i, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 21 November 1902, in his hometown, at the age of 75.
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Family Time Line
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- Salima in entry for Papalii Poutoa, "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996"
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1899
Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
Name Meaning
Of uncertain origin. Its first known occurrence is in a poem by Thomas Gray ( 1716–71 ), recording the death of Horace Walpole's cat Selima, ‘drowned in a tub of gold fishes’. The metre shows that the name was stressed on the first syllable, but there is no clue as to its derivation. Gray (or Walpole) was possibly influenced by the Arabic name Selim ‘peace’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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