Brief Life History of Calmar Josephine Taufau
When Calmar Josephine Taufau Nelson was born about 1918, in Tuaefu Upolu, Samoa, her father, Taisi Olaf Frederick Nelson, was 36 and her mother, Rosabel Edith Moors, was 32. She married August Meyer on 4 November 1938, in Samoa. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died about 1988, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 72.
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1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
1939
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
1939
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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