When Sose Toga Sua Tagaloa Epelame was born about 1879, in Salelologa, Samoa, her father, Tuafono Toga Sua Tagaloa Epelame, was 22 and her mother, Sa Meto Saitumua, was 18. She married Gatai about 1893.
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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).
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Filipino: occupational name derived from Tagalog tunga ‘to cultivate coconut trees’.
Filipino: derivative of tunga, a vocabulary word from the languages of central Philippines, meaning ‘middle, center’, hence a topographic name referring to the center of a place.
Polish: unexplained. This surname is very rare in Poland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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