Rose Matafeo
Birth Name: Rose Catherine Lettitia Matafeo
Place of Birth: Auckland, New Zealand
Date of Birth: 25 February, 1992
Ethnicity:
*father – Samoan, as well as approximately 3/32 English
*mother – Croatian, Scottish
Rose Matafeo is a New Zealand comedian, actress, and television presenter.
Her parents are Rastafarians.
Rose’s paternal grandfather was Uaea Joe Matafeo (Namulau’ulu Uaealesi Galo Tuilagi Matafeo). Uaea Joe was from Safotulafai, Savai’i, Samoa.
Rose’s paternal grandmother was Pisila Fereti (the daughter of Fereti Lotofaga and Muliutufaga Leulualali’i Simoumea Tuatagaloa). Pisila was from Falealili, Upolu, Samoa. Miliutufaga was the daughter of Simoumea Tuatagaloa Mataumu Leota and Mary Allen. Mary’s father, Benjamin Allen, was an American blacksmith and whaler, who came to Falealili on a whaling ship in the 1840s. Mary’s mother, Eliza Bourne, was the daughter of an English father, James Bourne, and of a Samoan mother, Mua Mata’utia.
Rose’s maternal grandfather was Daniel Joseph Vuletich (the son of Joseph/Josip Vuletich/Vuletić and Filomena Anastazija Musanić). Daniel was born in Dargaville, Kaipara District, Northland, New Zealand, to parents from Općina Vrgorac, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. Rose’s great-grandfather Joseph was the son of Mate/Matteo Vuletić and Marija Katić. Filomena was the daughter of Ljubomir Musanić and Marija Santica.
Rose’s maternal grandmother is Jessie Scott (the daughter of Thomas Torrance/Torrence Scott and Catherine Denholm Green). Thomas was the son of Thomas Torrance Scott and Agnes Lockhart, from Lanarkshire, Scotland. Catherine was also the daughter of Scottish parents, George Green, from Lanarkshire, and Margaret Ann Samuel Gray, from Selkirkshire.
Sources: Genealogy of Rose’s paternal great-great-grandmother, Mary Allen Tuatagaloa – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Rose’s maternal grandfather, Daniel Joseph Vuletich – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Rose’s maternal great-grandfather, Thomas Torrance/Torrence Scott – https://ancestors.familysearch.org
Rose’s father John is the son of Uaea Joe Matafeo (aka Namulau’ulu Uaealesi Galo Tuilagi Matafeo) from Safotulafai, Savai’i, Samoa.
Her grandmother is Pisila Fereti from Falealili, Upolu, Samoa. Pisila’s parents were Fereti Lotofaga and Muliutufaga Leulualali’i Simoumea Tuatagaloa. Miliutufaga was the daughter of Simoumea Tuatagaloa Mataumu Leota and Mary Tuatagaloa Allen the daughter of Benjamin Allen and Eliza (daughter of a Samoan mother and an English father).
Benjamin Allen was an American blacksmith and whaler who came to Falealili on a whaling ship in the 1840s. https://www.geni.com/people/Benjamin-Allen/6000000052388223842
Besides Samoan on her father’s side Rose is also distant (1/32nd?) Colonial American English.
Tag “Dalmatian”
Maternal grandfather was Daniel Joseph Vuletich son of Joseph Vuletich and Filomena Anastazija Musanić from Kozica, Općina Vrgorac, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
more info here https://www.geni.com/people/Daniel-Joseph-Vuletich/6000000026200385848
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225203443/daniel-joseph-vuletich
Marie’s his ex-wife. Jessie is his second wife.
Maternal grandmother is Jessie Scott daughter of Thomas Torrance Scott and Catherine Denholm Green. Thomas Torrance was the son of Thomas Torrance Scott and Agnes Lockhart from Lanarkshire, Scotland. Catherine was the daughter of George Green from Lanarkshire, Scotland and Margaret Ann Samuel Gray from Selkirkshire, Scotland
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LTQG-JV1/thomas-torrence-scott-1893-1983