Aileane Marie Silva

Aileane Marie Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Paternal grandmother · 1918–2001

Born

15 August 1918, Alameda County, California

Died

10 January 2001, National City, San Diego County, California

Parents

Frank T. Silva & Mildred A. Rose

Married

William Harry Proeger

Sources

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Life in the order the records give it

Birth1918

Born 15 August 1918, Alameda County, California; NUMIDENT gives the birthplace as "Mission San" S12S13

Death2001

Died 10 January 2001, National City, San Diego County, California S12S13

Death1918

🆕 A public-records address index has “Aileane S Roberts”, born 15 August 1918, living at National City and San Diego, California, in 1975, some twenty-six years before her death there Probable confirm or correct → S768. A commercial list, index only, but the birth date matches to the day. added 26 September 2026.

Photograph1937

🆕 Photograph, 10 February 1937 Confirmed (family testimony): she and William Harry Proeger on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage. Their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026: “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva”. In Photos below.

Her own "cousins list", c. 1996. Written by Eileen herself about thirty years ago, for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister, who later sent it to Earl. Its closing line is addressed to her: "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Each of her four children appears with that child's children and their ages. It is undated, but Bill's 55 and Earl's 29 place it in c. 1996. Ages are hers. Every "b. c." year below is derived from age minus 1996, not taken from a record S205.

• Nancy — "deceased" at the time of writing. Her children:
  • Sheryl, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Bryan, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); Stephanie, 14 (b. c.1982, derived); Amanda, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • Joann, 39 (b. c.1957, derived): children Robert, 22 (b. c.1974, derived); Derek confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 12 (b. c.1984, derived); Rex confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • Elain (spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): child Tessa confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • David, 24 (b. c.1972, derived)
• Patricia, 58 (b. c.1938, derived). Listed under her:
  • Ginger, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Edgar, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); India confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 13 (b. c.1983, derived); Carolina, 10 (b. c.1986, derived). After Carolina's name: "(adopted) Same family"
  • Rusty: "deceased", "57yrs". At 57 he cannot be the child of a 58-year-old. He is more likely Patricia's late husband, but the sheet does not say. 🆕 Patricia married Albert R. Collins in 1967, when he was 48 (born c.1918–19) S1207; Earl confirmed him as his uncle on 2 October 2026 Family testimony. If Rusty is Albert, “57yrs” would be his age at death (c.1975–76), not his age on the list. Nothing yet links the two names.
  • Robbie, 36 (b. c.1960, derived): children John Paul, 4 (b. c.1992, derived); Kelsey, 3 (b. c.1993, derived)
  • Carl, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): children Mindy, 10 (b. c.1986, derived); Albert, 7 (b. c.1989, derived)
  • Teal confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 27 (b. c.1969, derived)
• Bill, 55: children Earl, 29; Mark-Damon, 24, written as one entry with one age (the twins, b. 1972); Tasha, 21 (b. c.1975, derived); J J, 2 (b. 1994 S24) = John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother, Bill’s son confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026
• Kathie (the list's spelling of Kathy Roberts), 40 (b. c.1956, derived). No children are listed.

Nancy's death, settled 23 September 2026: the sheet calls Nancy deceased by c. 1996, and the record agrees. She died on 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon, as Nancy Wortman (Oregon Death Index, certificate 73-01723) S298; the Wallowa County Chieftain reported that she took her own life at Wallowa Lake S343. The 2025 date this page once carried for her was an error. Sheryl on this list matches Sheryl Lynn Parsons, Nancy's daughter and the owner of the Parsons/Prejean Ancestry tree.

Census1930

In 1930 she is living with her paternal grandparents, Frank and Anna Silva, at Washington Judicial Township, Alameda County

the census lists her at age 11 with the relationship "Granddaughter", and gives both her parents' birthplace as California S49. Her father had died in December 1924. She was six.

Record—

The NUMIDENT birthplace fragment "Mission San" resolves: Mission San Jose is one of the villages of Washington Township

the Portuguese-Azorean district, now part of Fremont, where the whole Silva family lived S47S50

Earl's own given names are "Robert Earl," and his father's stepfather from the age of five was Earl … Roberts. A striking fit — but it is an inference about naming, not a record. A lead for family interviews, nothing more.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1940

Married (1) William Harry Proeger, 13 August 1940, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah Confirmed

Wasatch County marriage record, certificate no. 2915, read from the register image 20 September 2026 S125. He was 25, she was 21; both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois." Married by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder; witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke, neither family. Three children: William Leonard Proeger (b. 1941, Los Angeles) S43, Nancy Aileen Proeger (b. 6 April 1937, Niles, California S275; d. 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon S298), and Patty Proeger. Nancy predated the marriage; Earl's direct testimony identifies William Harry as her father S24.

Marriage1943

Married (2) Clifford Ray Parliman, 31 May 1943, Los Angeles Confirmed

Los Angeles County marriage record; she is indexed as Aileane S Proeger, using her first married name S51. No children recorded.

Marriage1946

Married (3) Earl Theodore Roberts, 8 February 1946, Los Angeles Confirmed

Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026; both parties aged 27; she is indexed under her first married name, Proeger S88. He was a naval officer. One child: Kathy Roberts (living). ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.

Parents1943

Daughter of Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose. Five records agree, none derived from another: the NUMIDENT parent fields S13; the California Birth Index entry for her own birth, whose mother's-maiden-name field reads Rose S56; the 1943 Parliman marriage record, which assigns Frank Silva the role "Father Of Bride" and Mildard [Mildred] A Rose the role of mother S51; the 1946 Roberts marriage record, which names both again

"Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross S88; and her grandfather's November 1946 obituary, which calls her his granddaughter S67

Marriage1943

Roberts was her third husband, not her second

the 1943 Parliman marriage S51 came between Proeger and Roberts. The Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026, gives both parties aged 27 and names his parents Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson S88. He was a naval officer — the 1958 photograph aboard USS Wexford County shows the officer's cap. ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — she was born a Roberts at Bellaire, Ohio in 1892 S17, he to Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson in Massachusetts about 1918 S88. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.

Names1946

Recorded variously as Aileane Roberts, Aileane Silva Proeger, Aileen Marie Proeger and Aileane Silva Parliman S13; her grandfather's November 1946 obituary names her as "Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia" S67

the only record so far of where the Roberts household was that year, nine months after the Los Angeles wedding.

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Retrieved from the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History, or — for the University of Texas Cactus yearbooks — from Texas ScholarWorks. Each thumbnail opens the full page scan, which can also be downloaded. The quoted text is the OCR that ships with the scan, copied verbatim; the page image is the authority.

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Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941 (FamilySearch coll. 1803977) — Wasatch Co. Marriage License Record E, certificate 2915 — page 203

Vital record — marriage licence and certificate · 13 August 1940 · page Vol. E, p. 203, certificate no. 2915

Confirmed because The original county marriage licence and return, in the clerk's own register, carrying both parties' signatures, the officiant, two witnesses and the filing date. A government vital record, not a user tree..

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Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941 (FamilySearch coll. 1803977) — film frame, Record E pp. 202-203 — page 202-203

Vital record — full film frame · 13 August 1940 · page Vol. E, p. 203, certificate no. 2915

Confirmed because The original county marriage licence and return, in the clerk's own register, carrying both parties' signatures, the officiant, two witnesses and the filing date. A government vital record, not a user tree..

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Funeral card — Aileane Roberts, 1918–2001

Memorial card · 2001

In Loving Memory — Aileane Roberts, Born August 15, 1918 In Irvington, CA, Died January 10, 2001 In National City, CA

Confirmed because The card names and dates its own subject in print — full name, date and place of birth, date and place of death. It is a self-identifying document, not a captioned snapshot. This is the first confirmed image of Earl's grandmother..

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Eileen Roberts's handwritten "cousins list" — her children and grandchildren, c. 1996

Handwritten family list · c. 1996

Confirmed because Written by Aileane ("Eileen") Roberts herself about thirty years ago, for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister: each of her four children with that child's children and their ages. Her own family record, in her own hand. Tasha sent it to Earl on 22 September 2026..

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In the record Generation 3 — Earl's grandparents

1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
2. S13US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File, republished verbatim — see S2. A government record; the parent-name fields come from the person's own SS-5 application.
3. S17FindAGrave memorial 298908631, Anna Blanche Roberts Proeger (1892–1942) — findagrave.com/memorial/298908631.
4. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born in 1994 to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County […] and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.
5. S43California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:1:VLNB-2LT, "Entry for William Lenard Proeger and Silva, 1941." Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, where the day is not masked. This is the same index entry as S4; the free view returns it with the day hidden, which is why the birth date stood at Probable on this page until 13 September 2026. No paywall was defeated — a free FamilySearch account is all it takes.
6. S47US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 404, Alameda County, California; household 278, sheet 14B line 75. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M9P7-T13. The single most important document on the Silva line. Frank Sr: age 37, born June 1863, birthplace "Azores Port", arrival 1888, Head, married 13 years — and his own father's and mother's birthplace, both "Azores Port," which is the sixth generation. His wife Annie, 34, "Azores Port"; daughter Mary, 4; son Frank, 3, California. ⚠️ Indexed under the Anglicised spelling "Frank Silver", which is why he was invisible to earlier searches.
7. S49US Census, 1930 — Washington, ED 349, Alameda County. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:XCX2-4JJ (Aileen) and 1:1:XCX2-4JF (Frank Sr, Head, age 66). Aileen Silva, age 11, relationship to head: "Granddaughter", father's and mother's birthplace both California — which matches Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose exactly and rules the Azores-born generation out as her parents. Her father had died in December 1924. 🔑 Re-served 22 September 2026 under Anna's hint; the image-level reading and its supplement are at [S147].
8. S50US Census, 1940 — Washington Judicial Township, Niles, ED 1-180, Alameda County. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:K9Q4-7JC. Frank Silva, age 76, birthplace "Azores", Head, Widowed, residence in 1935 "Same House." The second of two federal enumerations forty years apart that name the archipelago — and, like the first, it names no island. Niles is a few miles from Mission San Jose, which is the "Mission San" birthplace on Aileane's own NUMIDENT.
9. S51California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 — entry for Clifford Ray Parliman and Aileane S Proeger. FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:2:9MJ4-4SZ5; film image 1:2:3QS7-893H-5WQJ. A government vital record, not a user tree and not NUMIDENT. The index assigns the roles in its own fields: Frank Silva — "Father Of Bride"; Mildard A Rose — mother of the bride; Aileane S Proeger — bride, using the married surname from William Harry Proeger. This is the document that moved Aileane's parents from Probable to Confirmed, and it also records her third marriage, behind the known alias "Aileane Silva Parliman."
10. S56California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — Aileane Silva, born 15 August 1918, Alameda, California, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:V256-J8H. The index's single associated surname is the mother's maiden name, and it reads Rose — corroborating Mildred Rose as her mother from a vital-records index rather than from NUMIDENT or a user tree. Its limit, stated: the index does not print the mother's given name, so it establishes the surname Rose, not specifically "Mildred A."
11. S67Frank Silva Sr — obituary, November 1946. Syndicated death notice datelined Mission San Jose, Nov. 28, retrieved 15 September 2026 as two independent OCR captures of the same text on Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra, via Ancestry All Access), image ids 205259611 and 205515816. "Frank Silva, 83, resident of this community for more than 50 years and former farmer and grocer, died at the San Jose Hospital yesterday… interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery… He was a native of Fayal, the Azores, and was a member of IDES Lodge No. 1, St. Anthony's Sodality and the UPEC Lodge. He was the husband of the late Anna L. Silva, the foster father of Frank S. Vargas, father of the late Frank Silva Jr. and Mamie Silva and grandfather of Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia." The record that confirmed the island. Not one indexed field: it independently corroborates every axis the lodge registers rested on — age 83 (b. ~1863), Mission San José, both lodges, wife Anna L., son Frank Jr — and adds the granddaughter by her married name. The second capture's OCR reads "Azures" for Azores: a scanning slip, not a variant place. It also overturns the "d. Santa Barbara County" reading this page had taken from the California Death Index; the index is simply incomplete for Alameda County.
12. S88Earl Theodore Roberts and Aileane Proeger — Los Angeles County marriage record, 8 February 1946. California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 (FamilySearch collection 1804002), page 30, digital folder 005698721, microfilm 2115501, image 2924; ARKs 1:1:K8KQ-X2F (groom) and 1:1:K8KQ-X2V (bride). Retrieved 16 September 2026. Both parties aged 27; the groom's parents are named as Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson; the bride is indexed under her first married name, Proeger, with her parents as "Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross [Rose]. It does two jobs. It replaces a family tree as the authority for Aileane's third marriage, and it is the only record that names Earl Theodore Roberts's own parents — which is how this page can state that he is no relation to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree. ⚠️ She is indexed in February 1946 as Proeger, not as Parliman, though the Parliman marriage of 31 May 1943 came first [S51] — an oddity of the index, recorded and not explained.
13. S125William Harry Proeger and Aileen Marie Silva — Wasatch County, Utah marriage, 13 August 1940. Utah, County Marriages, 1871–1941, Wasatch County, Marriage License Record E, page 203, certificate no. 2915. Register image 4000 × 3238 px, read 20 September 2026. Both parties present: groom age 25, bride age 21; licensed, married and filed same day by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder. Witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke — neither related to either family. Both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois" (no Rockford exists in Madison County; the clerk struck the printed "Utah" and wrote Illinois — the address was internally inconsistent, recorded and not corrected). Register image held at familytree-docs/proeger/proeger-silva-marriage-certificate-1940.jpg. The document behind the weakest "Confirmed" in the corpus. Previously sourced to a FamilySearch tree event (S12) with no government record. This county vital record — with both their signatures — replaces it. ⚠ Heber City is on the US-40 transcontinental corridor; Earl reports the couple was traveling from Ohio to California and stopped to marry, which fits the route. The residence anomaly (Illinois, not Ohio or California) is what they told the clerk and is not smoothed over. Two months later William Harry registered for the draft in North Hollywood.
14. S205Handwritten "cousins list" by Eileen (Aileane) Roberts, c. 1996. A single sheet in her hand listing her four children (Nancy, Patricia, Bill, Kathie) with each child's children and their ages, closing "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Written for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister; the closing line is addressed to her. Tasha sent it to Earl, and it was published on 22 September 2026 (documents/silva/eileen-roberts-cousins-list-c1996). Undated. c. 1996 is derived from Bill's age (55) and Earl's (29). Birth years derived from its ages are marked as derived. Tessa (11), India (13) and Teal (27) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026. Derek (12), Rex (11) and Elain (35, spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. J J (2) is John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother and Bill’s son, confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. His birth year, 1994, is Earl’s eyewitness testimony [S24], so for him the age is not a derived year. It records Nancy as deceased by c. 1996, which the Oregon Death Index confirms: she died 9 January 1973 [S298].
15. S275Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971 — Nancy Aileen Proeger and Robert George Belcourt. Ancestry record 1350125980. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Oregon Record of Marriage, Clatsop Co. file 3591 (state file 8614): Robert George Belcourt, U.S. Army, and Nancy Aileen Proeger, born Niles, California, 6 April 1937, daughter of William Proeger and Aileen DeSilva, married at Astoria, 9 October 1955.
16. S298Oregon Death Index, 1898–2008: Nancy Ail Wortman, died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, born April 1937; certificate 73-01723. Oregon State Library, State of Oregon Death Index 1971–1980 (Ancestry collection 5254, record 610109). Corroborated by the U.S. Social Security Death Index (Ancestry collection 3693, record 68905787): Nancy Wortman, born 6 April 1937, card issued in Oregon 1953–54, died January 1973. The 6 April 1937 birth matches her 1955 Oregon marriage record [S275] exactly. Read 23 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-oregon-death-index-nancy-wortman). Index entries only; the certificate itself has not been retrieved. Replaces an erroneous 20 Feb 2025 date that had been attached to her.
17. S343“Woman Takes Own Life At Wallowa Lake — Rifle Shot In Parked Car Claims Nancy Wortman.” Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Oregon), Thursday 11 January 1973, page 1. Page image shared on Ancestry by cduarte192 (media 204294cd), 872 × 924 px; read by eye 24 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-01-11-wallowa-county-chieftain-nancy-wortman). Confirmed Nancy Belcourt Wortman of Enterprise, 35, died on Tuesday [9 January 1973], apparently by her own hand with a rifle, in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake; found about 8:30 p.m. after a day-long search. Employed at the Wallowa County Nursing Home; twice divorced; survived by two daughters living at Fort Huachuca, Arizona with their father, Robert Belcourt, and a son and a daughter who had lived with her in Enterprise. Date, county and age agree with the Oregon Death Index [S298], and Robert Belcourt is her 1955 husband [S275]. A contemporary newspaper report, not the death certificate, which has not been retrieved. Published at Earl’s instruction, 24 September 2026.
18. S768U.S., Public Records Index, 1950–1993, Volume 1 — Aileane S Roberts. Ancestry record 95291004. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Aileane S Roberts, born 15 August 1918; residence 1975 at National City and at San Diego, California. A commercial address index. The exact birth date and her third married surname match; the street addresses are not reproduced here.
19. S1005Texas death index, 1958, p. 736. Ancestry record 6830106. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed LADUSCH OTTO, Travis County, 26 December, file 72008. The index adds the state file number of his death certificate.
20. S1207California marriage index — Albert R. Collins and Patricia E. Proeger, married 1967. Ancestry, “California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1960–1985”, record 8294292 (bride index, page 20,493). Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Groom Albert R. Collins, 48; bride Patricia E. Proeger, 28; marriage 1967, county code 90; state file 46991. Earl Proeger, her nephew, confirmed on 2 October 2026 that the bride is his aunt Patricia and Albert R. Collins his uncle Family testimony. ⚠ A computer-printed index, not the certificate. County code 90 is not yet decoded, so the county is not given.