Baroness Tuputupu Vaea

Tonga noblewoman and royal (1928–2021)

Sosaia Lausi‘i Ma’afu (father)
‘Anau-ki he-Sina Sunia Mafile’o (mother)

Tuputupu -‘o-Pulotu Vaea, The Honourable Baroness Tuputupu ‘o Pulotu Vaea of Houma (née Ma'afu-'o-Tukuialahi; 14 October 1928 – 29 July 2021) was a Tongan noblewoman and royal. Vaea and her late husband, former Prime Minister of Tonga Baron Vaea (1921–2009), are the parents of the present Queen of Tonga, Queen Nanasipau'u.^[1] She was the mother-in-law of the present King of Tonga, Tupou VI.^[2]

She was the eldest daughter of Siosaia Lausi’i, 7th Ma’afu-’o- Tukui’aulahi, of Vaini and his wife, ’Anaukihesina Lamipeti.^[3]

The baroness and her late husband, Baron Vaea, had seven children and one adopted daughter: Queen Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho, 'Alipate Tu'ivanuavou Vaea, 'Amelia Luoluafetu'u Vaea, Luseane Luani (Dowager Lady Luani) and Cassandra Vaea (formerly Tuipelehake).^[4] Two sons, Moimoikimofuta Kaifahina Vaea, Ratu Edward Vaea, are deceased.^[4]

Family tree

Tupou family tree

Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua line

Tuʻi Tonga line

Tuʻi Kanokupolu line

Kalolaine Fusimatalili

George Tupou I

Fīnau Kaunanga

Fifita Vavʻau

Tēvita ʻUnga

Sālote Mafile‘o Pilolevu

Filiaipulotu

Fusipala Taukiʻonetuku

Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha

Lavinia Veiongo

George Tupou II

ʻAnaseini Takipō

Viliami Tungī Mailefihi

Sālote Tupou III

Vīlai Tupou (illegitimate son)

Tupou Seini

Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV

Halaevalu Mataʻaho
ʻAhomeʻe

Siaosi 'Alipate Tupou, Baron Vaea

Tuputupu Ma'afu-'o-Tukuialahi

George Tupou V

Tupou VI

Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho

Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala

Sinaitakala Fakafanua

Taufaʻahau Manumataongo

Reference:

Fox, James J.; Sather, Clifford (1996). Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Australian National University. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-7315-2432-7. OCLC 245762652.
Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois; D.C. (2008). The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-19-284238-1. OCLC 236158882.
Völkel, Svenja (2010). Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. p. 45. ISBN 978-90-272-0283-3.
Wood-Ellem, Elizabeth (1999). Queen Sālote of Tonga: The Story of an Era 1900-1965. Auckland, N.Z: Auckland University Press. p. front. ISBN 978-0-8248-2529-4. OCLC 262293605.

References

^ "Prince 'Ulukalala to wed Hon. Sinaitakala Fakafanua". Matangi Tonga. 2011-07-29. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
^ "Lava e tatau 'a e fonua mo e lotu kia Palōnesi Tuputupu 'o Pulotu Vaea" (in Tongan). Nepituno. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ "Baroness Tuputupu 'o Pulotu Vaea laid to rest at Houma". Matangi Tonga. 3 August 2021. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Baron Vaea passes away after a long life of service". Matangi Tonga. 2009-06-08. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17. Retrieved 2021-08-09.