Brief Life History of Tuimaseve Tinei
When Tuimaseve Tinei Namulau'ulu Tautaioleua II was born on 1 January 1882, in Satupa'itea, Savai'i, Samoa, his father, Namulau'ulu Tautaioleua Malietoa, was 23 and his mother, Fao Tuimaseve, was 23. He married Vasati Tinei Tago about 1909, in Satupa'itea, Savai'i, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. He died in his hometown, and was buried in Satupa'itea, Satupa'itea, Savai'i, Samoa.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Tuimaseve Tinei Namulau'ulu Tautaioleua II - birth-name: Namulauulu T Salima
- Tinei Tuimaseve in entry for Lia Tui Tui, "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996"
- Tuimaseve in entry for Lia, "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996"
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World Events (5)
1899
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.
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).
1939
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Name Meaning
Japanese: written 井伊 ‘well’ and ‘that’, the name one of Japan's great daimyō families, originally based in Tōtōmi (now part of Shizuoka prefecture), later in Kōzuke (now Gunma prefecture) and Ōmi (now Shiga prefecture). Other variants of the name substitute either character with similar sounding characters such as 飯 ‘cooked rice’, 居 ‘residence’, and so forth. It was formerly Romanized as Iyi. — Note: In the population figure published by the US Census Bureau, the Roman number II (meaning ‘the second’, i.e. ‘the younger’ of the two bearers of the name) is apparently also counted as a surname Ii.
History: Ii Naomasa (1561–1602) was awarded lands in Kōzuke and Ōmi for his service in the civil wars that won the shōgunate (military dictatorship) for Tokugawa Ieyasu. His family built the beautiful castle of Hikone, which still stands. His descendant Ii Naosuke (1815–1860) ruled Japan for two years as Tairō (Great Elder) and played a major part in signing treaties that opened Japan to foreign trade at the end of the Tokugawa Shōgunate. He was assassinated by adherents of the anti-foreign party.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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