When Silaumua Apelu was born on 27 April 1889, in Tau, Manu'a, American Samoa, her father, Maeli, was 11 and her mother, Suemalo Maeli, was 10. She married Tiualii Viena about 1898, in Olosega, Olosega, Manu'a, American Samoa. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 15 September 1965, in Pago Pago, Maoputasi, Eastern, American Samoa, at the age of 76, and was buried in Tutuila, Eastern, American Samoa.
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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).
American Samoa is devestated by a hurricane. Olosega, in the Manua Islands, suffered the most. The Navy Department gave the Territory 50 tons of rice, 10 tons of salmon and 15 tons of biscuits.
U.S. troops are stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Some characteristic forenames: German Armin, Dietrich, Hans, Arno, Fritz, Gerhard, Horst, Klaus, Kurt, Lothar, Mathias, Rudie.
German: variant of Appel ‘apple’.
German: from a pet form of Albrecht .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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