PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
The estate belonging to this family is that of Houma. The founder of
the family was Vaivai, son of Mata'eletu'apiko, 3rd Tu'i Kanokupulu,
and his second wife, 'Umukisia. Title holders were...
- VAIVAI, 1st Vaea,
son of Mata'eletu'apiko, 3rd Tu'i Kanokupulu,
married Lupe, and had issue.
- MUNI TAUNGAPUAKA,
2nd Vaea, married
1stly, Fīnau Foukihala'unga,
daughter of Teukihe'alo'i, 3rd Ve'ehela,
and his wife,
Tangikinatofetofe, married 2ndly, Lupe, and had issue.
- Tu'imotuliki VAEA (by Finau), married Mo'ungaelangi, and
had issue.
- VUNIVALU VAEA (qv)
- FINAUHU'IA VAEA (qv)
- Finau Vaea (by Fīnau)
- Longa Vaea (by Finau)
- Panimoa Taungapuaka (by Lupe), married (as his third
wife),
Falataha or Nukufo'iva'e, 4th Nuku; and had
issue.
- Tavalu Taungapuaka (by Lupe or by Teukava Lavaka),
married
Fakamoimoikava Lavaka, daughter of Manavahetau Toafa'ohihifo, 4th
Lavaka, and had issue, one son.
- Tupou Vaivai Tavalu, married 1stly, Mafipau'u Ma'afu,
daughter of Tu'ipulotumatapule (see Tu'i Kanokupulu), and his wife,
'Atu'ohakautapu, married 2ndly, 15th October 1858, Teu Tupou Hausia,
born 1837, died 1890, daughter of Hausia, and his wife, Meliame,
married 3rdly, 'Ane Finau Pa, daughter of Pa Sovea (see Tu'i
Kanokupulu), and
had
issue. He died 1899.
- Veaniua Tupou (by Mafipau'u), he died about 1918.
- Fifita'ila Tupou (by Mafipau'u), married 1stly, 'Ane
Tupoufalefehi 'Ulukalala, daughter of Finau
'Ululukalala III 'Ipou'ono Tu'apasi,
4th 'Ulukalala and 12th Tu'i
Vava'u, and his wife, Hon. Siulolovao, married 2ndly, Sela Lolohea,
and had issue.
- Siketi Tupou (m)
- Tonga Matamoana Tupou, he died 18th July 1928.
- Fakavamoeatu Tupou, he died 2nd June 1930.
- Naukovi Tupou, she died 4th July 1935.
- Fakatoumafi Tupou, she died 20th June 1945.
- Tupou Kapetaua Tupou, born about 1864, married May
1902, Mele Sisi Motu'apuaka, daughter of Sione Fekeila Motu'apuaka, and
his wife, Makelesi Fifita, and had issue. He died 27th August 1929.
- Viliami Fekeila Kapetaua, born 13th May 1903, he
died 22nd February 1921.
- Liumei Tupou Kapetaua, born 14th Janauary 1910,
she died 24th August 1921.
- Popua Pisila Tupou (by Mafipau'u), married Hame
So'onafai, and had issue.
- Sioana (by Mafipau'u)
- Sione Fifita (by Mafipau'u)
- Uilalelei
Vehikite (by Mafipau'u)
- Metuisela Vehikite (by Mafipau'u), born 18th August
1831, married 1stly, 'Asena Tonga, married 2ndly, Munakifalemei,
daughter of Fuapau, and his wife, Noa'isiapua Kaho, married 3rdly,
Tupou or Tufui Loholoho, married 4thly, Tufui Tuita, and had issue. He
died
about 1893.
- Lupemeitakui Vehikite (by 'Asena), married 'Isileli
Fehokotea Tu'ipelehake, and had issue (see Tu'ipelehake).
- Sokopeti 'Atu'ohakautapu (by Munakifalemei)
- Sione Tuitahalafau Vehikite (by Tufui), born 4th
June 1871, married 1894, 'Ane Tongo Naupoto, born 8th July 1878, died
18th January 1940, daughter of Siofilisi Naupoto, and his wife, Mele
Moala Tomasi, and had issue. He died 22nd September 1923.
- Sokopeti Vehikite, born 25th December 1894, died
4th June 1896.
- Kalisi Vehikite, born 4th June 1896, died 28th
September 1896.
- Loholoho Vehikite, born 3rd January 1898, he died
5th May 1900.
- Pasikala Vehikite, born 9th May 1900, he died
30th August 1902.
- Tevita Puletau 'Ahoafi Vehikite, born 22nd August
1902, died 28th Decmber 1970.
- Sione Tuitahalafau Vehikite, born 4th July 1904,
died 23rd August 1956.
- Sela Mafi Vehikite, born 5th January 1908, died
16th February 1959.
- 'Elina Vehikite, born 8th May 1909, died 4th July
1919.
- Samuela Loholoho Vehikite, born 22nd August 1910,
died 12th December 1991.
- Lausi'i (by Mafipau'u)
- Finau (by Mafipau'u)
- Mele Teukialupe (by Mafipau'u), married Soakai Paipa.
- Sakopo Finau Tupouvaivai (by Teu or by 'Ane), born
24th April
1862,
married 'Alilia Fehia, died 1914, daughter of Timote Tongi
Tupaolelangi, and hsi
wife, 'Ana 'Ika Taula, and had issue. He died
1926.
- Tevita Finau, born 1885, died 3rd August 1889.
- Siliva Finau, born 1887, he died young.
- Mounga Finau, born 7th April 1889, died 1890.
- Popua Finau, born 7th April 1889, she died young.
- Valamotu Finau, born 9th July 1890, died 1891/1892.
- Vikatolia Finau, born 1891, died 21st May 1978.
- Militoni Fonua, born 17th March 1893, died 18th
November 1965 in San Mateo California.
- 'Ita'aehau Taungapuaka (by Lupe), married Siulovolovo,
and had issue, one son.
- Sione Halaifonua 'Ita'aehau, married 1stly, Fusi
Tangitangi
Tupou, married 2ndy, Tapenisi Tule Motu'apuaka, daughter of 'Utuma'atu
Motu'apuaka, and his wife, Sepiuta, married 3rdly, Susana
Pasini Tu'ivakano, and had issue.
- 'Ane Finau Halaifonua (by Fusi)
- Lesila Halaifonua (by Tapenisi), married Sami
Tongotea, son of Taniela Tongotea, and his wife, Lesieli Kaipa (see Lavaka), and had issue.
- Tevita Finau Halaifonua (by Susana), married Mele
Havea, daughter of Siokatame Havea (see Tokemoana),
and his wife, Tapaita Maile Kioa, and had issue.
- Seluvaia
Tongi Finau, born 27th January 1871, married, Salesi
Moimoi Lasike, and had issue (see Lasike). She died 2nd November 1959
in Nuku'alofa.
- Feleti Finau
- Molitoni Fisi'ihoi Finau, born 26th March 1880,
married 1899, 'Ilaisaane Fotui
Ata, born 18th November 1879,
died 17th September 1939, daughter of Hon. Tevita Manu'opangai,
5th Ata, and by Mele, and had issue (see Ata). He died 11th June 1965.
- 'Ema Finau
- 'Ofakivava'u Finau
- Tangisi Finau
- Penitani Finau
- Nau Finau
- Salote Finau
- Takai Tali Finau, he died young.
- Tonga'uiha Finau Halaifonua (by Susana)
- Leka Halaifonua (by Susana), died 1882.
- VUNIVALU'I'UTULANGIVAKA,
3rd Vaea, married,
and had issue.
- Hafoka Ve'eono VAEA
- Tu'ivakanofisi VAEA
- Taulakau VAEA, married Mo'ungao'elangi, and had issue.
- Funaki Malohi VAEA
- Lomu VAEA
- Tautalanoa Tau VAEA
- Mite Nau VAEA (by Naupuku)
- Veatokelau Vaea
- FINAUHU'IA, Vaea,
married 1stly, Taufa Popaofehi,
daughter
of
Chief Fulivai, married 2ndly, Fifita Ha'amotuku Tu'ilakepa, married
3rdly, Tupou
Vavatau, married 4thly, Mo'ungaelangi, married 5thly, Siekina Etau
Fakatulolo, and had issue. He died 20th June 1844.
- HIVAPEAULU VAEA (by Taufa or by Siekina) (qv)
- Hon. TAMATA'ANE VAEA (by Taufa or by Tupou or by Siekina)
(qv)
- Tupou Mapumeihengalu Vaea (by Fifita), married Fatafehi
Fonohema Tau'atevalu, ?6th Valu of Utalu, and had issue.
- Sisilongoa'a Valu, married Manavahetau
To'afa'ohihifo,
4th Lavaka, and had issue.
- Sofaia Valu, married (as his secondary wife),
Hon. Viliami Halatu'itu'ia,
1st Tungi, and had issue.
- Kueaipangai VAEA (by Mo'ungaelangi)
- 'Atamokamea VAEA (by Mo'ungaelangi or by Taufa), married
Kefu, and had issue.
- Tavamopulenga VAEA (by Mo'ungaelangi or by Taufa)
- 'Umu'umu Vaea (by Mo'ungaelangi or by Taufa)
- HIVAPEAULU, Vaea
-/1869, married 1stly, Finau Fakahau,
married 2ndly, Veamotulalo,
and had issue. He died 1869 [xx.3.1862].
- Hon. SIONE TAVA (by Veamotulalo) (qv)
- Tupou Finau Fe'ao Vaea, married Moeakiola, son of Takai,
Hau of
Tongatapu, and his wife Puleilangite,
daughter of Hafoka, Chief of 'Eua, and had issue.
- Samikusokusa VAEA (by Finau), married Hulita Tufunga, and
had issue.
- Lavinia Ikatonga Mau (by Veamotulalo), married Sovea
Niupalavu, and had issue (see Tu'i Kanokupulu).
- 'Akesa Te'epuaka Vaea (by Veamotulalo)
- Hon. TAMATA'ANE,
Vaea 1869/1876; married Hon. Hingano
Vaimoana, died 1st November 1881, daughter of Fono'uto, and
his wife, Feangai, and
had issue. He died about 1876 [xx.4.1867].
- Hon. VILIAME KAFOKUOTA
VAEA (qv)
- Hon. SOLOME KULIKEFU VAEA (qv)
- Hon. Vaeakiataele Vaea
- Hon. SHADRACH NUKU VAEA (qv)
- Hon. Sione Hafoka VAEA, born 22nd November 1848, married
1869, Sepiuta Funaki, and had issue. He died
13th December 1890.
- 'Ilisapesi Faiana Hafoka, born 15th August 1877, died
1945.
- Hon. Finau Vaea, born 6th October 1850, died 6th April
1870.
- Hon. Sia Vaea, born 1st January 1852.
- Hon. SIONE TAVA VAEA,
10th Vaea 18xx/1885, deprived of his
title
in
1885, married (a), Hon. Taetuna'ula, daughter of Liufau, Tu'i Ha'angana, and his wife,
Puleilangite, married (b), Falekihetono Malupo, daughter of 'Etueni Ika
Tu'i Malupo, and his wife, Tupou Veito'o, and had issue. He died
1890.
- Hon. Fakatoumafi VAEA (by Taetuna'ula)
- Hon. Siukiholeva Vaea (by Taetuna'ula)
- Hon. Vaohoi Vaea, married Hon. Vaha'i Lasike, and had
issue.
- Hon. VILIAME KAFOKUOTA
VAEA,
11th
Vaea 1885/1886; born 4th
July 1831 in Houma, married Hon. Tongakovi Mumui, born 29th July 1833,
died about 1898, daughter of MUMUI, and his wife, Popua Toholo, and had
issue. He
died 6th August 1886 in Houma.
- Hon. Kalolaine Tuipekihelotu
Vaea, born 15th July 1857 in Houma, married 4th December
1869 in
Nuku'alofa, Hon. Saletili Tu'uhetoka, and had issue. She died about
1920.
- Hon. Kafoa VAEA
- Hon. SOLOME KULIKEFU VAEA,
12th Vaea 1886/1887; married 1stly, Hon.
Finau
Fekita, born 1840, died 1910, married 2ndly, Mohe Lavaka, and had
issue. He died 9th October 1887.
- Hon. SIOSAIA PAU'UVALE LOLOA'ATONGA (qv)
- Hon. Tupouseini Vaea
- Hon. Fatafehi Hapaha Vaea
- Hon. 'Amelia Tuna Vaea
- Mele Sivale Vaea (by Mohe)
- Hon. SHADRACH NUKU
SITALEKI VAEA, 13th Vaea 1887/1893,
married Hon. Tupou Veiongo, and had issue. He died 30th
July 1893.
- Hon. Talanoa Fuka Sitaleki Vaea, born 16th June 1891,
married Sepiuta Falepapalangi, died 9th June 1940. He died 21st May
1965.
- Hon. Moeakiola Vaea
- Hon. SIOSAIA PAU'UVALE
LOLOA'ATONGA, 14th Vaea 1893/1939,
born about 1860,
married Hon. Kalolaine Tongilava, born 1866, died 20th July 1950,
daughter
of Sione Filipe Taufa Tongilava, and his wife, Seluvaia Tupou'uluiki,
and had issue. He died 1939
- Hon. Tupou Seini Manumatavai Vaea, born 21st February
1888 in Houma,
Tongatapu, married 18th March
1919 in Nuku'alofa, Hon. Viliami Vilai Tupou, natural son of HM King
GEORGE TUPOU II
of Tonga, and
had issue, eight children and two adopted children. She died 13th
September 1973 in Houma.
- Hon. Salote Tupou Moheofo Tupou, born 27th June
1920/1925 in Nuku'alofa, died 27th May 1940/1939 in Nuku'alofa.
- Hon. 'Alipate
Halakilangi Tau'alupeoko Tupou (qv)
- Hon. Fatafehi Lapaha Tupou,
married 1949, Hon. Siosaia Aleamotu'a
Laufilitonga, 8th Tuita, and has issue. She
died 21st January 2001.
- Hon. Vaohoi Konahe'ulu'o
'Aho'eitu Tupou, married Hon. Penisimani
Katavake Naufahu (see 'Ulukalala), and
has issue, seven children.
- Hon. Palu Vava'u Tupou, married
Richard Cousins.
- Hon. Toutai Tupou, married and had issue.
- Ngahauoma, married Kipisoni Latu Si'i,
Inspector of Police, and has
issue.
- Hon. 'Amelia Leafatulangi Tupou, married Manu
Mapuhola Mataele, and has issue, two children.
- Hon. Kupu'ovanua Tupou, married
Memoe'ia Sefesi, adopted daughter of The Noble Ata (Hon. Solomone
'Ula), and has issue, seven children.
- Kalapenia Tupoumoheofo Tupou, married Semisi
Taumoepeau, and has issue, five children.
- Kalapenia Va'oFonoti Papaha'amea Taumoepeau,
married Walker Tau'aika, and has issue.
- Saimone Taumoepeau, married and has issue.
- Malu Taumoepeau, married Faye Prescott, and
has issue.
- Tupouseini Taumoepeau
- Kupu'ovanua Taumoepeau
- Salamasina Tupou, married Semisi Fakatou, and
had issue, three children.
- Adi Vui Tupou, married and has issue.
- Mapumeihengalu Tupou
- Tonga Fuesia Tupou, married Sisikula, and had
adoptive issue.
- Richard Mataialona Tupou, married Meleane
Piukala, and has issue.
- Papa'ahamea Tupou, married Ika Nakao, and has
adoptive issue.
- (A) Fale'aka
Sipu Tupou
- (A) Hon. Tevita Poasi Tupou, married Sa'ane Tufui,
and
had issue, two sons and two daughters.
- Tania
Laumanulupe'o Trafalgar Square Tupou, married 28th July 1995 (sep'd. 1997, div.), Giulio Masasso Tu'ikolongahau Paunga,
Minister of Trade, Commerce and Industries, and has issue.
- Sinaitakala
Paunga, born 9th May 1996 in New Zealand.
- Tevita Poasi Tupou
Si'i, married Tupou Tonga, and has issue.
- Tupouseini
Manumatavai Tupou.
- 'Isileli Tupou.
- (A) 'Amelia
Salote Tanginitopa
Tupou, married Viliami Taukafa 'Alipate, and has issue, two children.
- Hon. 'Amelia Tuna Kaimanu Vaea, born 1890, married August
1934, Hon. Finau 'Ulukalala VI Siaosi Tangata'o Ha'amea, Ata and 7th 'Ulukalala, born 15th August 1891, died 12th
September 1960, and adoptive issue. She died sp.
- (A) Takukipulotu
Finau, married Robert Topui, and had issue.
- Hon. Finauhuia VAEA, born 1892.
- Hon. Popua Vaea, born 1894.
VACANT 1939/1942
- Hon. 'ALIPATE
HALAKILANGI TAU'ALUPEOKO TUPOU [Baron Vaea of Houma], 15th Vaea
[16.5.1942] - [7.6.2009],
born 15th May 1921, educated at Tupou College in Tonga 1933/1937, at
Wesley College, Auckland 1938/1941 at Oxford University, U.K.
1967/1968; served in
the Royal New Zealand Armed Forces 1942/1945; Member of the Tonga Civil
Service 1945/1953; A.D.C. to HM Queen Salote
1954/1959, Acting
Governor of Vava'u
[30.10.1958] - [1959], Governor of Ha'apai [19.9.1960] - [1968]; first
Commissioner and Consul of Tonga in
the U.K. 1969; First Tongan High Commissioner
to London 1970/1972, 1st Minister for Labour, Commerce and Industries
1972/1991; Deputy Minister of Finance; Director of Chairman of many
varied Committees, including Chairman of the National
Reserve Bank of Tonga, Chairman of the
Tonga Broadcasting Commission and Chairman of the Tonga
Telecommunications
Commission; Minister
of Agriculture and Forestry 1975/2000; Minister of
Fisheries; Minister of Marine and Ports; acted
as Deputy Prime Minister on numerous occasions, and as Minister of
Education
and Civil Aviation, and of Finance; 12th Prime Minister of Tonga
1991/2000; installed as the 1st Baron Vaea of Houma [cr. 4.6.1970] by
HM the King of
Tonga, appointed Vaea 16th May 1942 (#1
p.319), awarded the New Zealand Commemorative
Medal in 1990, awarded the Medal of Merit of the Republic of Chile in
1993, awarded the Silver Jubilee
Medalof the Coronation
of H. M. KingTaufa'ahau
Tupou IV
in 1996, awarded the Order of Tahiti Nui from the
Government of French Polynesia in 1999, awarded the Agricola Medal by
theUnited Nations Food and
AgriculturalOrganization (FAO) in 2001 and was made Knight Grand Cross
of the Order
of Queen Salote in 2008; married 1952,
Hon. Tuputupu'opulotu
Ma'afu [Baroness Vaea of Houma], born 1920, daughter of Hon. SIOSAIA
LAUSI'I, 8th Ma'afutuku'iaulahi, and his
wife, Hon.
'Anaukihesina Mafile'o, and
had issue, six children as well as an adopted daughter and further
issue. He died 7th June
2009 at his home, 'Tali
ki Ha'apai' at
Houma, Tongatapu and was buried in the Kolomanatau
Cemetary in Houma on 13th June 2009.
- HRH Princess Heuifanga Nanasipau'u Vaea, born 8th March
1954, educated at Queen Salote College,
in Nuku'alofa, then in Melbourne, Australia for two years, before
joining
her family in England where her father had been appointed Tonga's first
High Commissioner to Great Britain, studied there for a further five
years,
chairperson of both Queen Salote College Old Girls' Association
executive
committee and PPSEAWA Tonga's steering committee. She is also an active
member of the PTA and assists in various committees in her village.
Included
in her work with women is her service as a patron of the Women's and
Children's
Centre, YWCA, the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Centre and the Hihifo
District's
Women's Committee, she married 11th December 1982, HRH Crown Prince
Tupouto'a Lavaka ['Aho'eitu 'Unuaki'otonga Tuku'aho] of Tonga,
and has issue.
- Hon.
Luseane Fakaola'ifanga Vaea [Lady Luani], married The
Nopele Luani (Hon.
Laumanu'uli
Luani), and
has issue, one daughter.
- Hon. 'Alipate Tu'ivanuavou VAEA (qv)
- Hon.
'Amelia Luoluafetu'u Vaea, married Hon. Havea Hikule'o 'o Pulotu,
[The Noble Lasike Tu'uhetoka].
- Hon.
Viliami Moimoikimofuta Kaifahina
VAEA
- Hon.
Ratu Edward Palalaika'a Tungi VAEA (+)
- (A) Hon.
Cassandra Tukuia
–A-Purea Tuku'aho Vaea
- 'Amelia Salote Tanginitopa Tupou, adopted by Hon. Tupou
Seini Manumatavai Vaea (see above); married Viliami Taukafa
'Alipate, and has issue.
- Takukipulotu Tupou, adopted by Hon. 'Amelia Tuna Kaimanu
Vaea (see above); married Robert Topui, and has issue.
- Tiani Tupou, married Molofaha Fulivai, and has issue,
three children.
- 'Alamea Fulivai, married Tau 'Aholelei.
- Fuofolau Fulivai, adopted by Lord and Lady
Fusitu'a, married Anthony Tu'ipeatau.
- Telesia Pasina
- Seluvaia Fekitoa
- Fakatafaimoana Vea Halaholo
- Tukio Afeaki, married Robina Nakao, and has issue, one
daughter.
- Hon. 'Alipate
Tu'ivanuavou VAEA [Baron Vaea of Houma] (see above)
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