When Anita Schwenke was born on 1 December 1883, in Nu'uuli, Ituau, Eastern, American Samoa, her father, Julius Schwencke, was 53 and her mother, Melaina Leota, was 42. She married Fasi Atoa Leota about 1898, in Samoa. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1921, in Samoa, at the age of 38.
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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.
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).
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).
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Fritz, Gerhard, Otto, Rainer, Reinhold, Wolfang.
German: variant of Schwenk 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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