Birth Name: Sànoe K. Lake
Place of Birth: Kauai, Hawaii, United States
Date of Birth: May 19, 1979
Ethnicity:
*Native Hawaiian, as well as English, Chinese, Portuguese, distant Irish (maternal grandfather)
Sanoe Lake is an American surfer, model, and actress. Her maternal grandfather had Native Hawaiian, as well as English, Chinese, Portuguese, and distant Irish, ancestry.
Sanoe’s mother, Laola Lake, is a champion surfer. Her father was a big wave surfer. “Sànoe” means “The Mist of the Mountains”, and Laola means “Day of Life, Health, or Salvation”, in Hawaiian.
Sanoe’s maternal grandfather was Thomas “Tommy” Charles Kealiimoewai Lake (the son of Thomas Keali’imoiwai Charles Lake and Cecilia Kuliaikanu’uwai’ale’ale Waipa). Sanoe’s grandfather Tommy was a musician, known as the bass player of the band Kahauanu Lake Trio, who plays Hawaiian music. Thomas was the son of Charles Bromeo/Boromeo Lake, whose father was from mainland America, and Mary Kaheiheimailie Enos, who was of Portuguese and Native Hawaiian descent. Cecilia was the daughter of Stephen Lonokahi Keaolani Parker Waipa, who was of Native Hawaiian and English descent, and Helen Tai Poon Wong, whose father was Chinese, and whose mother was of Native Hawaiian, and one quarter Irish, ancestry.
Sanoe’s maternal grandmother was named Lydia/Lorri.
Sources: Information about Sanoe’s mother – http://www.trykauai.com/MaidenAloha.html
Obituary of Sanoe’s maternal grandfather, Tommy C. Lake – http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/11/ln/FP607110344.html
Sanoe’s maternal grandfather, Thomas Lake, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH1F-4CS
Thomas on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB9N-SR4
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