Brief Life History of Mele
When Mele Tau'aika was born in 1876, in Kolomotu'a, Tongatapu, Tonga, her father, Tau'aika, was 35 and her mother, 'Olivia, was 21. She married ʻIsikeli Fanua in 1898, in Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1974, in Lofanga, Ha'apai, Tonga, at the age of 98, and was buried in Tonga.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Mele Tau'aika - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Mele Tau'aika
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1970
Tonga ceases to be a British protectorate and becomes fully independent within the British Commonwealth.
Name Meaning
from a vocabulary element meaning ‘king’ in Hebrew. It originated in part as a nickname, in part as a short form of various compound names containing this element, for example Elimelek ‘God is king’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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