Brief Life History of Peter Oki Tangihua
When Peter Oki Tangihua Diamond was born on 12 September 1928, his father, Toheriri Taame Rangihaunui, was 29 and his mother, Martha Thompson, was 28. He married Emma Morgan on 1 April 1963, in Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand. He died on 3 February 1995, in Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand, at the age of 66, and was buried in Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand.
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Family Time Line
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- Peter Oki Tangihua Diamond, "Find A Grave Index"
Spouse and Children
1928–1995 Male
1919–1989 Female
Parents and Siblings
1900– Male
1900– Female
Siblings (1)
1928–1995 Male
World Events (8)
1939
Age 11
1943 · Eleanor Roosevelt Visits During War
Age 15
1947
Age 19
Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an Anglicized form of a metonymic occupational name for a diamond worker, derived from German Diamant, French and Dutch diamant ‘diamond’, or Yiddish dime(n)t, from medieval Latin diamas, genitive diamantis, and ultimately from Greek adamas ‘unconquerable’, genitive adamantos, a reference to the hardness of the stone.
English: from the rare Middle English female personal name Diamand, derived from Old French diamaunt, diamaund ‘diamond’, found in Middle English as diamound, deamaunt, and deamon. The name may alternatively be a variant of Daymon or a pet form of the Middle English personal name Day , to which the hypocoristic suffix -man has been added.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Diamáin ‘descendant of Diamán’, earlier Díomá or Déamán, a diminutive of Díoma, itself a pet form of Diarmaid (see McDermott ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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