Otto Skelton
14 November 1895–1955 (Age 59)
Samoa
The Life Summary of Otto
When Otto Skelton was born on 14 November 1895, in Samoa, his father, John Skelton, was 59 and his mother, Emmaline LETELE'AUSASALA FRUEAN- Zimmermann, was 30. He married Faatoa Foualo Duffy in 1914, in Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa. He died in 1955, in Samoa, at the age of 60, and was buried in Samoa.
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Family Time Line
Otto Skelton
1895–1955
Faatoa Foualo Duffy
1894–1963
Marriage: 1914
Spouse and Children
1895–1955Male
1894–1963Female
Marriage
1914Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa
Parents and Siblings
1836–1913Male
1865–1943Female
Siblings
(15)
1883–1941Male
1884–1967Male
1886–1964Male
1886–Female
1888–1948Male
+10 More Children
World Events (3)
1899
Age 4
1899
Age 4
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
Age 19
1914
Age 19
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
Age 44
1939
Age 44
U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Name Meaning
(1997: 5792;2007: 11714; 2010: 15624)English (Yorkshire): habitational name mainly from Skelton in Cumberland, or any of various places called Skelton in Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. The placenames probably all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, with initial Sk-, instead of Sh-, due to Scandinavian influence. However, in some cases, the first element may be a lost river name, from Old Norse skjallr ‘resounding’; compare Skelding . This English surname has been established in Queen's County [Laois], Ireland, since the 16th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Skelding
Skilton
Sources (1)
- Otto William Skelton, "Samoa, Baptisms, 1863-1940"
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