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Mildred A. Rose

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's mother · 1898–1960

Mildred Rose Silva — detail from the three-generation photograph (FamilySearch Memory 9943586) S323.

• Born 26 July 1898, California — the day is from the California Death Index S316; enumerated as a two-year-old daughter in her own father's household in the 1900 census, Washington Township, Alameda County, where she and her twin brother Edward are bracketed "Twins" S55. That is what lifts her from a name in a parent field to a documented person with parents of her own.
• In 1920 she is in her husband's parents' house, indexed by OCR as "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California S48
• Her daughter's 1918 birth index entry carries Rose in the mother's-maiden-name field — independent corroboration from a vital-records index S56
• Married Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr) before September 1918, when he named "Wife Mildred Silva" on his draft card; in January 1920 the couple were in his father's household S48. Later surname Springer S316.
• Second marriage, to William Springer, after Frank Silva Jr died in 1924; date and place not yet found. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him on 1 October 2026 Confirmed (family testimony): “My Grandmother. Moms Mother. And her second husband William Springer.” She died as Mildred A Springer S316. The 1950 census finds Mildred Springer, 51, born California, with her husband William Springer, 50, born California, an auto parts salesman, in Oakland, Alameda County Probable (name, age, birthplace and husband match; nothing else on the entry ties it to her) — United States Census 1950, ED 67-450B, p. 76, line 7. The marriage record itself is not yet found.
• A photograph of Mildred and William Springer by a picket fence, late 1930s or 1940s, from Patricia Collins’s collection, is in Photos below with its AI-assisted enhanced version.
• Died 7 October 1960, Alameda County, California, as Mildred A Springer Confirmed (index; certificate not seen) — California Death Index 1940–1997: born 26 July 1898, California, mother's maiden name Mendonca S316. The birth date matches the 1900 twins entry and the maiden name matches her mother's, so this is her. The 1960 date is restored. It was withdrawn on 14 September because searches under Silva and Rose found nothing; she had remarried and died as Springer.
• A three-generation photograph shows her with her daughter Aileane and granddaughter Nancy S323; it is in Photos below and her portrait above is cut from it.
• 🆕 A studio portrait of two couples, about 1915–1920 Confirmed (family testimony): Mildred and her first husband Frank Da Silva Jr, with her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson, as her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026 (Helen is Mrs. Victor Johnson in Mildred’s 1960 death notice; Patti confirmed the name). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after her first husband William Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 (she was still Mrs. O’Farrell in 1942), and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen in this photograph may be Farrell; not settled. In Photos below.

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Antone Rose

Azores, PortugalProbable

Evidence: The 1900 and 1910 censuses, the 1879 Alameda marriage index and his son Joseph. Weak or missing: His death is only bracketed, 1910–1920; no death record or burial has been found. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Great-grandfather · b. Feb 1840 · d. 1910–1920

• Son: Joseph Rose (b. Oct 1888, California) Confirmed S55
• Born February 1840, Portugal — the 1900 census gives Feb 1840, age 60 S55, and the 1910 census age 62 S201 Confirmed. The 1920 census gives his son's father's birthplace as the Azores S314; the island is not recorded. The earlier "c.1864" on this page was our own misreading of the 1900 sheet.
• Immigrated 1870 S55
• Died between April 1910 and January 1920: alive in the 1910 census S201, absent in January 1920, when Louise is head of the household S314. The date "1932" came from a user tree and has been withdrawn: no Alameda Antone Rose/Rosa death appears in the California Death Index for 1932. A FamilySearch tree gives 1911, which no record read so far confirms.
• Father of Mildred A. Rose (Aileane's mother) — listed as Head of household at Washington Township, Alameda County in 1900, with Mildred as Daughter, a twin with her brother Edward S55
• Married Louise da G. de Mendonça Probable confirm or correct → in 1879 — the Alameda County marriage index dates it 3 Jan 1879 S315 (a FamilySearch tree gives 26 Jan; the ceremony date is unconfirmed), and the 1900 census says married 21 years S55
• Portuguese immigrant in the same township as the Silva family — both of Aileane's parental lines landed in the same few square miles of Alameda County S55

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Louise Rose

Azores, PortugalProbable

Evidence: The 1900, 1910 and 1920 censuses, five records of her maiden name, and a 1936 California Death Index entry. Weak or missing: Her death rests on one index entry filed under Rosa, not Rose, with no certificate; her baptism is not found, and her parents come from a family tree. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Great-grandmother · b. c.1856 · d. probably 5 July 1936

• 🆕 Photograph Confirmed: the only known photograph of her, outdoors in a garden, about 1925–1936, from the collection of her great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who identified it on 1 October 2026: “Great Grandmother Rose. From the Azore island.” Family testimony; the print itself is unlabelled. See Photos below.
• Son: Joseph Rose (b. Oct 1888, California) Confirmed S55
• Born c.1855–56, Portugal — the Azores, per the 1920 census S314; island not recorded — aged 44 in the 1900 census S55 and 54 in 1910 S201; the 1900 birth-year column contradicts its own age column, and two censuses agree on the age S12
• 🆕 Died, probably, 5 July 1936, California Probable confirm or correct →: the California Death Index has “Rosa, Luiza G. A.”, aged 80, file 40139 S624. The name fits her maiden name, Louise da G. de Mendonça, and the age fits a birth about 1856. It is filed under Rosa, not Rose, and the certificate has not been ordered, so it stays probable. The date “1953” is withdrawn: it came from a user tree S12 with no record behind it. added 26 September 2026. She is alive in January 1920 as head of her own household at Washington Township S314.
• Mother of Mildred A. Rose and her twin brother Edward (both b. July 1898) — listed as Wife, age 44, in the 1900 census household of Antone Rose S55
• Married Antone Rose in 1879 — indexed 3 Jan 1879 in Alameda County S315; the ceremony date is unconfirmed S55
• Nine children born, eight living in 1900: Rose (Nov 1879), Louise (June 1885), Antone Jr (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), the twins Edward and Mildred (July 1898), and Helen (Oct 1899) S55
• Maiden name Mendonça Confirmed — five records name her so: the 1879 Alameda marriage index, "L. da G. de Mendonca" S315; Joseph's 1913 marriage, "Louisa Mendosa" S317; Helen's 1918 marriage, "Louise Mendonca" S319, and Helen's NUMIDENT, "Louisa Mendonca" S320; and Mildred's 1960 death index entry S316. Frank's 1914 marriage gives "Louise Silver" S318. The fuller form "Dutra de Mendonça" Probable confirm or correct → comes from a FamilySearch tree S322.
• Parents Probable confirm or correct → Francisco Dutra de Mendonça and Francisca Eugénia of Feteira, Faial, the Azores. A FamilySearch tree places her in their family S322, and the baptisms of two of its children, Francisca (1847) and Manoel (1850), are indexed at Horta S321. Her own 1856 baptism has not been found, so the link is not yet proven.

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Son of Antone & Louise Rose · b. Oct 1888

• Research status: CONFIRMED — listed as son of Antone Rose in the 1900 census, Washington Twp., Alameda Co., Calif., S55.
• Born October 1888, California S55
• Listed as Son in the 1900 household of Antone Rose and Louise Rose, Washington Township, Alameda County S55

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Daughter of Antone Rose · born 1879

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose
• Born November 1879, California, the eldest; already married by the 1900 census, which lists her with her parents S55

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Daughter of Antone Rose · born 1885

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose
• Born June 1885, California; Louise in the 1900 household at Washington Township, Alameda County S55

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Son of Antone Rose · born 1887

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose
• Born June 1887, California; Antone in the 1900 household S55

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Son of Antone Rose · born 1891

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose
• Born 6 May 1891, Irvington, Alameda County, California S627; Frank in the 1900 household S55
• 🆕 His 1942 draft card gives his birth as 6 May 1891 at Irvington, Alameda County. He was 50, a self-employed contractor and builder at 1647 D Street, Hayward, and his contact was Mrs. Helen O'Farrell of San Leandro, probably his sister Helen Agnes Rose, who had married William Bernard Farrell S627. added 26 September 2026.

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Son of Antone Rose · born 1898

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Son of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; brother of Mildred A. Rose
• Born July 1898 (26 July, by his draft card S632), California, the twin of Mildred, bracketed with her on the 1900 census S55
• His death has not been found
• 🆕 His 1918 draft card has him at Irvington, a farm labourer working for his mother, Louise Rose, who was also his nearest relative. It gives his birthday as 26 July. It writes the year as 1899 but his age as 20, which only fits 1898, so the 1900 census's July 1898 is kept S632. added 26 September 2026.

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Daughter of Antone Rose · 1899–1995

• Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from a record that names the parents; entered in the family tree the same day.
• Daughter of Antone Rose and Louise Rose; sister of Mildred A. Rose
• Born 3 October 1899, Irvington, California, the youngest; Helen in the 1900 household S55
• Married William Bernard Farrell, 30 November 1918, San Francisco; died 20 November 1995
• 🆕 Helen Agnes (Rose) Farrell Johnson Confirmed (family testimony + 1960 notice). Her sister Mildred’s death notice (Oakland Tribune, 9 October 1960, p. 40) names her as Mrs. Victor Johnson of San Leandro, and Mildred’s granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins confirmed on 1 October 2026 that “Uncle Victor Johnson” sounded right.
• 🆕 First husband: William Bernard Farrell (O’Farrell), married 30 November 1918 in San Francisco; she was still “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell” of San Leandro in 1942.
• 🆕 William B. O’Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 Confirmed (newspaper reports, read 2 October 2026). The Hayward Daily Review of 11 June 1946, page 1, names him as William B. O’Farrell of 1525 170th Avenue, Ashland, “husband of Mrs. Helen O’Farrell”, the same address Helen gave in 1942 S1178S627. Driving home from his job at the Pacific Ice Company at about 6:40 p.m., his car crossed the centre line and hit a 10-ton truck loaded with steel beams head-on, on San Leandro Boulevard at 92nd Avenue, Oakland. The trailer overturned and spilled the steel into the street; he was dead on arrival at Highland Hospital S1178S1180. The family remembered it as a steel-laden truck that dropped its load onto his car (Patricia (Proeger) Collins, 1 October 2026). The papers agree in substance; the difference is that his car struck the truck and the trailer then overturned. He was 46. ⚠️ His birth date is open: the Find a Grave index gives 16 June 1899, a user-made FamilySearch profile gives 16 January 1899 S1182; both fit age 46.
• 🆕 A daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson Probable confirm or correct →. The Daily Review funeral notice of 12 June 1946 lists his survivors as “Mrs. Helen O’Farrell, widow” and “one daughter, Mrs. Lorraine Peterson” S1179. ⚠️ The notice makes her William’s daughter, not explicitly Helen’s; no birth record naming Helen as her mother has been found. She is not given a card until one is.
• 🆕 Helen Agnes Rose died 20 November 1995, as Helen A. Johnson Confirmed: the Social Security Death Index entry for Helen A. Johnson gives 3 October 1899 – 20 November 1995, exactly the dates of Helen Agnes Rose’s Social Security record S1181S320.
• 🆕 Second husband: Victor Johnson Confirmed (family testimony; the surname comes from the 1960 notice). They married after June 1946, when her first husband was killed. No marriage record has been found, and which Victor Johnson he was is still open: two Alameda County couples in the 1950 census, Victor E. and Helen A. Johnson (Eden Township) and Victor B. and Helen R. Johnson (Murray Township), are leads only.
• 🆕 A studio portrait of two couples from Patricia Collins’s collection shows Helen with her sister Mildred and Mildred’s husband Frank Da Silva Jr; Patti names the fourth person as “her husband Victor”. ⚠️ The date and the names conflict, and this record does not settle it: the dress suggests about 1915–1920, Frank Jr died in December 1924, and Helen was still married to Farrell until his death in June 1946. So the man with Helen may be her first husband, William Farrell, named by the family after the husband they knew. In Photos below.

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