When Talosa Tuisamatatele was born about 1874, in Tutuila, Eastern, American Samoa, her father, Leleasapai Niu Tuisamatatele, was 30 and her mother, Foisaga Toilolo, was 36. She married Vaiau about 1895.
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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).
American Samoa is devestated by a hurricane. Olosega, in the Manua Islands, suffered the most. The Navy Department gave the Territory 50 tons of rice, 10 tons of salmon and 15 tons of biscuits.
U.S. troops are stationed in Western Samoa during World War II, but no battles are fought on the islands.
Basque: habitational name from the town of Tolosa in Gipuzkoa province (Basque Country, Spain).
Spanish: habitational name from the city of Toulouse (southern France) from where many people populated parts of eastern Spain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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