When Heitonga Soakai was born about 1832, in Pangaimotu, Vava'u, Tonga, her father, Koloamatangi Soakai, was 33 and her mother, Puli, was 30.
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Tonga was united into a Polynesian kingdom.
Some characteristic forenames: Japanese Hiroshi, Shoko, Kazuo, Kenji, Tomoko, Toshio, Yoshio, Akio, Atsushi, Ayako, Chie, Fumiyo.
Japanese: mostly written phonetically 酒井 ‘rice wine (sake)’ and ‘well’. This family is descended from the Tokugawa family, and took its name from the village of Sakai in Izumi (now part of Ōsaka prefecture), though the name of the village is written 堺 ‘boundary’. Another possibility is 坂井 ‘well at the slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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