Fiti Tuato

Femaleabout 1836–

Brief Life History of Fiti

When Fiti Tuato was born about 1836, in Sala`ilua, Palauli, Savai'i, Samoa, her father, Talagai Pauga Tuato, was 23 and her mother, Afafine o Tolovae, was 21. She was buried in Upolu, Samoa.

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Family Time Line

Asi Vaa Falagaipupu Tuatagaloa
1832–1918
Fiti Tuato
1836–
Leata Asi- Tuatagaloa
1879–

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    Children (1)

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    World Events (3)

    1899

    Age 63

    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 78

    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 103

    U.S. troops stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.

    Name Meaning

    Either a short form of any of the numerous names representing a transferred use of a surname formed with the Anglo-Norman French prefix fi(t)z ‘son of ’, as for example Fitzgerald , Fitzroy , or a transferred use of the surname Fitz, which may be of the same derivation, but applied originally to distinguish a son from a father bearing the same given name, or a local name from Fitz in Shropshire, named with the Old English personal name Fitt + hōh ‘hill spur’.

    Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.

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