PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: Tevita
Vuna Tu'i'oetau was the original holder of the title, which was
regranted to Hon. Solomone Piutau 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e. Estates belonging
to this family are, Ha'avakatolo in Tongatapu, and 'Utui in Vava'u.
Title holders were...
- Unknown, married and had issue.
- Lavakava'oleleva (qv)
- Kau'ulufonuahu'o, married and had issue.
- Mata'ukipa Ma'itaki,
married 'Uluakimata I, 29th Tu'i Tonga, and had issue.
- Lavakava'oleleva, 1st 'Ahome'e,
married Falekihetoa, and had
issue.
- Hifo
Talangameivei, married (as his first wife), Ngata, 1st Tu'i Kanokupulu, and had issue.
- Kaufo'ou (by Falekihetoa), married (as his second wife),
Ngata, 1st Tu'i Kanokupulu, and had
issue.
- Va'enopo, married (as his third wife),
Tapu'osi, 28th Tu'i Tonga.
- Va'etapu, married (as his third wife),
Ngata, 1st Tu'i Kanokupulu, and had
issue.
- Kula'ima'ofanga, 'Ahome'e,
married and had issue.
- Toto, married Afualo, 1st Lavaka, and had issue.
- Solomone Tevita 'Ahome'e, married Suliana Lepolo Hafoka,
and had issue.
- Pita 'Ahome'e, married Losana Finau Fotualupetea Nukumo
Vaha'i, and had
issue.
- Mosese Vaha'i 'Ahome'e, married Latu'ila, daughter of
Koate'ata, and his wife, 'Ana Papa, and had issue (see Koate).
- Lesieli Tu'ungafuka Kaufo'ou 'Ahome'e, married Hon.
Sione Kafoa Momotu, 6th Momotu, and had issue.
- 'Ilaisaane Mafi 'Ahome'e, married Tevita Tu'ipulotu,
and had
issue.
- Fatafehililikaimoana, married TAHA'AFE,
and had issue (see Tu'i Ha'angana).
- 'Ana Vaha'i 'Ahome'e
- Pa'uliasi 'Ahome'e, married Vika Heilala
(Ma'afutakinima?),
and had issue.
- Hon. Tupou Tevita 'Ahome'e (qv)
- Tapaita Taufa 'Ahome'e, married Paula Fusilala, son of
'Uihamoha'ano, and his wife, Manu, and had
issue.
- 'Emeline Fusilala, married 'Aisea Pasi, and had
issue.
- Hon. Tupou Tevita 'Ahome'e, born 1806, married Hon. Lavinia
Longoa'ame'e Melehifo,
daughter of Vili Pusiaki, and his wife, Moala, and had issue. He died
1870.
- Hon. Solomone Piutau 'Ahome'e, born 17th May 1837,
married
1862, Hon. Fangafua Ata, born 1844, died 1901, daughter of Hon. Sefesi
Ata (see Ata), and had issue, one daughter. He
died 1st August 1889.
- Hon. Hifo Piutau 'Ahome'e, born 1864.
- Hon. Melaia Tutukikuo'ola Lavaka 'Ahome'e, born 21st June
1841, married
Paula Ma'afu, and had issue. She died 7th January 1891.
- Tevita Taukiha'amea Ma'afu, born 1st October
1869.
- Filisione Tuineau Ma'afu, born 9th March 1873.
- Hon. Vika Heilala 'Ahome'e, born 19th November 1843.
- Hon. Taniela 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e, born 30th March 1845,
married Hon. 'Atelaite Siulolovao Vaea,
born 1847, died 24th May 1890, daughter of 'Aisea
Vaea Momataele, and his wife, 'Ilaisipa Tu'ionetoa (see Vaha'i), and
had issue. He
died
21st September 1896.
- Hon. Solomone 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e (qv)
- Hon. 'Eleni Tutukipea'ola 'Ahome'e ['Eleni
Tutukukuo'ola
'Akome'e], born 23rd June
1872,
married Semisi
Velelevu Tapueluelu, son of Tevita
Ta'ofikaetau Tapueluelu, and his wife, 'Afukaipo'uli (see 'Ulukalala). She died 1930.
- Hon. Mosese 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e, born 1874.
- Hon. Kalolaine Lata'ifalefehi 'Ahome'e, born 3rd August
1876, married Hon. Sioeli
Latumailangi (see Ma'atu), and had issue. She
died 1917.
- Hon. Sukahina 'Ahome'e, born 1st March 1878, died
September
1941.
- Hon. Taniela 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e, born 16th December
1881, married 1922, Hon. 'Amelia Namoa
Vahai, daughter of Hon. Vilisoni Namoa [The Noble Vaha'i],
and his
wife, Hon. Kalisi 'Uatesoni. He died 19th August 1947.
- Hon. Ngaseata 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e, born 1st November
1883, died 18th December 1912.
- Hon. Hulita Kaufo'ou 'Ahome'e, married Hon. Siosaia
Tautalanoa Ata, 6th Ata. She died 1891.
- Hon. 'Ilisapesi Kaufo'ou 'Ahome'e, born 27th February
1847, died 15th February 1895.
- Hon. Meleseini 'Ahome'e, born 2nd July 1849?, married HRH
Prince Nalesoni
Laifone 'Unga of Tonga, and had issue. She
died 16th July 1899.
- Hon. Solomone Piutau 'Otukolo 'Ahome'e [The Noble
'Ahome'e], 1st 'Ahome'e [1xxx] - [29.6.1936], born 29th May 1870,
married 1stly, 1897 in Nuku'alofa, Hon. 'Amelia Ata Mo'unga'aelangi
Maealiuaki,
born 30th
January 1881, died 1966, daughter of Hon. Viliami Maealiuaki (see Tu'i
Kanokupulu), and his
wife,
Hon. Ma'ata Blake, and had issue, as well as further issue by Mele
Lu'isa Koka, daughter of Benjamin Lobley Cocker, and his first wife,
'Aselika
Ngaki. He died 29th June 1936.
- Hon Tevita Manuopangai 'Ahome'e [The Noble 'Ahome'e] (by
'Amelia)
- Hon. Solomone Piutau 'Ahome'e (by 'Amelia ), born 30th
May
1900, died 3rd October 1968.
- Hon. Sunia Humo'ui 'Ahome'e, born 1901, died 30th August
1904 in Kolomotu'a.
- Hon. Taniela Sunia Haumono 'Ahome'e (by 'Amelia), born
1902.
- Tevita 'Alipate 'Ahome'e (by Mele Lu'isa), born 10th June
1904, married (a),
Ma'uhuni,
and
had issue, married (b), Hon. Tupoumolakepa Finefeuiaki,
daughter of Hon. Paula Pulu Finefeuiaki, 10th Nuku,
and his first wife, Hon. 'Ele, and had issue, nine children. He died
14th February 1974.
- Seluini 'Ahome'e (by Mele Lu'isa), born 1908, married
Lisi/Lose Nifofa, daughter of Fatai (see Ma'afu), and his wife,
Fuetahi, and
had issue. He died 1961.
- Polo Seluini 'Ahome'e
- Heipau 'Ahome'e
- Loumaile Ngaki Koka 'Ahome'e (by Mele Lu'isa), born 30th
September 1910, married 1931, Isileli Tupou Lausi'i, and had issue,
four children (see Tupou). She died 1985.
- Hon Tevita Manuopangai 'Ahome'e [The Noble 'Ahome'e], 2nd
'Ahome'e [30.6.1936] - [20.3.1961], born 23rd July 1898, Chief of
Ha'avakatolo; appointed to the title of 'Ahome'e on 30th June 1936;
Governor of Ha'apai 1946/1952 and 1955/1960; Governor of Vava'u
1952/1955; Minister for Police 1960; married Hon. Heuifanga Veikune,
died December 1996, daughter of Hon. Fotu'Afalefa Veikune, 2nd Veikune,
and his wife, Hon. Vaohoi Ma'afu, and had issue. He died 20th March
1961 in
Nuku'alofa and was buried at Ha'avakatolo.
- Hon. Halaevalu Mata'aho 'Ahome'e [later HM Queen
Halaevalu
Mata'aho Tuku'aho], born 29th May 1926, married 10th June 1947, in
Nuku'alofa, Hon. Taufa'ahau Tuku'aho [later HM Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga], and had issue.
- Hon.
Tupou Kolotolu 'Ahome'e, married Hon. Dr. Sioeli Tilitili Puloka, died
10th July 2004, and has issue, three sons and one daughter.
- Hon.
Kaufo'ou Falekihetoa 'Ahome'e, married (as his second wife), Hon.
Holika Tu'ineanu Naufahu, and has issue, two sons and two daughters
(see 'Ulukalala).
- Hon. 'Elenoa Ngatai'alupe 'Ahome'e, married 1958,
Hon. Mahe'uli'uli Tupouniua, born 20th July 1927 in Nuku'alofa, died
19th
October 2007, and has issue, one son and six daughters.
- Hon. Eugenie Salote Mafikaunanga Tupouniua,
married Melekiseteki Naufahu (see 'Ulukulala)
- Hon. Nicolette Tupou Moheofo Tupouniua, married
The
Hon. Havea
Tu'iha'ateiho VILIAMI VEASI'I VEIKUNE, 15th Havea Tu'i Ha'ateiho, and has issue.
- Hon. Mahe'uli'uli Sandhurst Tupouniua
- Hon.
Kalolaine Taukapa Lata'ifalefehi Ahome'e, married Hon. Kinikinilau
Lelea'afafine Fakafanua, [The Noble Fakafanua], 6th Fakafanua, and had
issue. She died 26th July 2007.
- Hon. Viliami Vuna Tu'i'oetau Manuopangai 'Ahome'e [The
Noble 'Ahome'e] (qv)
- Hon. Tevita Manuopangai 'Ahome'e, born 18th April 1939,
died 1st August 1994.
- Hon. Va'etapu Melehifokivai 'Ahome'e
- Hon. 'Otuangu 'Ahome'e, born 1941, died young.
-
Hon. 'Amelia Latuniua 'Ahome'e, born 1945,
married H.E. Sonatane Tu'akinamolahi Taumoepeau Tupou,
born 14th March
1943, 8th Governor of
Vava'u 2005/2009; Educated at primary schools in Nuku'lofa and Neiafu,
Vava'u, and attended Newington College, Sydney, Australia 1953/1962,
and at
University of Hawai'i (B.Sc., Political Science); he joined the Tongan
Civil Service in 1969 as an Assistant Secretary in the Prime Minister's
Office; commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the Tonga Defence
Services in 1971; he served in various positions in both London and
Tonga from 1973 until 1986 when he returned to the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs as Secretary for Foreign Affairs; he served as Tongan
Ambassador to the United Nations [xx.9.1999] - [2004]; Tonga's
Ambassador to the United States; High Commissioner to Canada; 3rd
Foreign Minister of Tonga [24.8.2004] - ; Minister of Defence
[22.4.2005] -; Tonga's Permanent Representative to the United Nations
[1.5.2009] - as well as Tongan Ambassador to the United States, Chile,
Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, and Tongan High Commissioner to Canada,
son of Samuela Ma'afu Vakautafefine Tupou, and his wife, Lu'isa
Ma'ume'afo'ou Taumoepeau (see Lasike), and had issue, two sons and two
daughters.
She died 12th August
2007.
- Hon. Christian
David Faha'ivalu Taumoepeau Tupou
- Hon. Latasi Tupoutuopau'u Tupou
- Hon. Marcelle Margaret Tupoumoheofo Tupou
- Hon. Odette Ainise Kilinalivoni Tupou 'Ahome'e
Tupou
- Hon. Viliami Vuna Tu'i'oetau Manuopangai 'Ahome'e [The
Noble 'Ahome'e], 3rd 'Ahome'e [20.3.1961] - [19.8.1981], born 15th
February 1935, married 15th
November 1966, Hon. Lavinia Veiongo Kalaniuvalu, born 1934, died 14th
September 1991, daughter of
Hon. Semisi Fonua Kalaniuvalu, 3rd Kalaniuvalu-Fotolfili, and his wife,
Hon. Sisilia Tupou-mo-Lakepa Tu'itavake, and had issue. He died 19th
August 1981.
- Hon. Tevita Vuna Tu'i'oetau 'Ahome'e [The Noble 'Ahome'e]
(qv)
- Hon.
Tevita Vuna Tu'i'oetau 'Ahome'e [The Noble 'Ahome'e],
4th 'Ahome'e [19.8.1981] - [9.2.2006], born 17th Ocotber 1970,
appointed to the title on 18th December 1992, Lord Master of the Royal
Household at the Palace office in Nuku'alofa; married Hon. Tangikina
Lahi Valevale, daughter of Hon. Sitenimoa Valevale [The Nopele Nuku],
16th Nuku, and his wife, Hon. Takavaha Namoa,
and had
issue. He died 9th February 2006 in Los Angeles,
buried 25th February 2006 in Ha'avakatolo, Tongatapu, Tonga.
- Hon. Viliami Tu'i'oetau 'Ahome'e (qv)
- Hon. Pavel Takangamoe Mafi 'Ahome'e
- Hon. Lavinia Veiongo 'Ahome'e
- Hon. Viliami Tu'i'oetau 'Ahome'e [The Noble 'Ahome'e] (see
above)
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