When Salome Kavatahi Lapota was born about 1774, in Neiafu, Vava'u, Tonga, her father, Lapota, was 36 and her mother, Ika Sii Eke, was 35. She married Isikeli Finau about 1794, in Neiafu, Vava'u, Tonga. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died about 1865, in her hometown, at the age of 93.
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British explorer Captain James Cook visits Tonga three times.
Taufa'ahau Tupou assumes the name of George Tupou I and establishes Tongan monarchy.
Tonga was united into a Polynesian kingdom.
Czech: nickname for a miser, from lakota ‘miserliness’, by extension also ‘miser’.
Slovak: nickname from lakota ‘sweet, dainty’.
Slovenian: nickname from lakota ‘hunger’, by extension also ‘greediness’, possibly applied to a greedy person, or to a thin or poor person, or to someone with a canine appetite.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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