When Fa'atuai Folasa was born about 1856, in Falelima, Samoa, her father, Sioeli Folasa, was 29 and her mother, Finoa Aloi, was 26. She married Lamauta Aiolupo from about 1881 to 1898, in Falelima, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 6 March 1948, in her hometown, at the age of 93, and was buried in Falelima, Samoa.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: Polish Beata, Boguslaw, Irena, Krystyna, Stanislaw, Zbigniew.
Polish: from kolasa ‘wagon, carriage’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a cartwright or coachman.
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