Brief Life History of Mele
When Mele Fa'oa was born in 1878, in Kanokupolu, Tongatapu, Tonga, her father, Taiela Samate, was 30 and her mother, Lesieli Tokilupe, was 39. She died in 1938, at the age of 60, and was buried in Kanokupolu, Tongatapu, Tonga.
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Parents and Siblings
1849–about 1919 Male
1839–1890 Female
Siblings (5)
1872–1906 Male
1878–1938 Female
1879–1961 Male
1880–1940 Female
1882–1965 Male
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Italian Sal, Rocco, Carmine, Mario, Carlo, Giovanni, Amerigo, Angelo, Dante, Dino, Ferdinando, Gino, Italo. Spanish Adela, Aura, Esteban, Juan, Juanita, Luis, Mercedes, Otila, Pablo, Rosario.
Italian, Catalan, and Portuguese: from fava ‘broad bean’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of broad beans, a nickname for a bean eater, or a topographic name for someone living in an area characterized by the cultivation of this plant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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