Silaumua Apelu

Brief Life History of Silaumua

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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Family Time Line

Tiualii Viena
1876–
Silaumua Apelu
1889–1965
Marriage: about 1898
Taime Devoux Viena
1904–1983
Agaiotupu, George, Viena
about 1919–1984
Ropati Tiualii Viena
1914–2008
Tiualii Lale Samoa Viena
1917–1990
Olita Teresa Viena
1917–1995
Faailoga Tiuali'i Viena
1931–1962

Sources (8)

  • Laumua in household of Tiualii, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Legacy NFS Source: SILAUMUA Apelu - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Silaumua
  • Laumua Tiualii, "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996"

Parents and Siblings

World Events (4)

1914

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).

1926

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.

1939

U.S. troops are stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.

Name Meaning

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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