When Auna'i Leasi Jr was born in 1841, in Safune, Samoa, his father, Auna'i Magele Tanuvasanailalo, was 27 and his mother, Mereane, was 19. He had at least 3 sons and 2 daughters with Mele Letui.
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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.
Scottish: habitational name from a place, now called Pitlurg, inthe parish of Slains, Aberdeen. The name is first recorded in 1380 inthe form Lask, but its origin is not known.
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