Brief Life History of Susana
Susana Stowers was born on 19 July 1889, in Samoa as the daughter of Samuel Stowers and Sina Stowers. She married Frederick Langkilde on 31 July 1915, in Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 9 daughters. She died on 25 September 1948, in her hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Samoa.
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- Susana in entry for Rita Thompson, "Samoa, Vital Records, 1846-1996"
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World Events (3)
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
English:
habitational name from the River Stour in Essex, named with a word related to the ancient Germanic root stūr- ‘strong, stiff, fierce’. The surname has since developed a post-medieval excrescent -s.
variant of Stower, with post-medieval excrescent -s, itself a variant of Storr . In some cases Stower is also a habitational name from Stour Provost, East and West Stour, or Stourpaine (Dorset), named from the River Stour (see above). The name may also have originated from the Norman French personal name Stur (Old Norse Sture, of uncertain etymology but possibly related to stórr ‘big’), but it is not known if this survived as a hereditary surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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