The Proeger Family · Generation 4 — Earl's great-grandparents

Frank T. Silva

Aileane's father · 1897–1924 · on his marker, "Frank Silva, Jr"

Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Photograph, c. 1908-1912

Frank T. Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's father · 1897–1924 · on his marker, "Frank Silva, Jr"

Born
2 December 1897
Died
3 December 1924, Alameda County
Buried
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville
Parents
Frank Silva Sr & Anna Silva
Sources
10
Images
7

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1897
🔑 Born 2 December 1897 — the date is in his own hand. His World War I draft registration card, read off the image at full resolution, writes "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897" on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true" S148
Arrival1930
🔑 Box 10, "Native Born", is ticked
boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (citizen by his father's naturalization) are empty, as are both alien boxes. He was a citizen by birth, independently of and consistently with the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 S148S147
Census1920
🔑 The 1920 census tests that self-reported date against an enumerator, and it holds. On the sheet of 17 January 1920, taken against a reference date of 1 January 1920, he is 22
and 2 December 1897 makes him exactly 22 on that day. A birth in December 1898 would have made him 21. The date he wrote in his own hand survives an independent test S150S148
Census1900
🔑 And the 1900 sheet's own age column agrees with him against its own year cell. That page writes "Dec 1898" in the month-and-year columns but age 2 at the 15 June 1900 enumeration. December 1898 would have made him 1; December 1897 makes him 2. Where the two cells of that sheet disagree, the age column is the one that matches the draft card, and the year cell is the erroneous one S141S148
Census1920
🔑 In January 1920 he and Mildred are living in his parents' house. He is entered as Son, a Laborer in general work, born California; Mildred, 21, is entered as Daughter-in-law. It is the only document that places the young couple under Frank Sr's roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card
now read rather than indexed S150
Work1918
🆕 Laborer for Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose
the first occupation and employer on any document for him; medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. Registered 12 September 1918 at the Local Board for Division No. 2, Alameda County, Hayward, serial 939, order A 2696 S148
Record2026
🆕 Ran — owned, per family — Coste's saloon, a speakeasy at Mission San José during Prohibition. His granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him in a newspaper clipping of the saloon's line-up, third from left: "My Grandfather Frank Da Silva Jr. He was the owner of this speakeasy in Mission San Jose Ca." (via Earl Proeger, 1 October 2026). Prohibition began in January 1920 and he died in December 1924, so the photograph is most likely c. 1920–1924. ⚠️ This is family testimony, not a record — no licence, directory, court or newspaper entry has yet been found; the clipping and the full reasoning are under Photos and Documents below.
Death1924
Died 3 December 1924, Alameda County
one day after his 27th birthday — California Death Index, middle initial T intact S53. No other Frank Silva dying in the county in 1924–25 carries both that initial and that date.
Burial
Buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, in what is almost certainly the family plot S54

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1918
🆕 The first document in which he himself names Mildred. Nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address, Mission San Jose
which dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth S148
Parents1920
Son of Frank Silva Sr and Anna Silva
the 1920 census gives his relationship to head of household as "Son", age 22, married, living in his parents' house with his wife S48
Parents2026
🆕 Two studio portraits Confirmed (family testimony), both identified on 1 October 2026 by his granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins: one of about 1908–1912 with his parents
“Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior” — and one of two couples, about 1915–1920, with his wife Mildred, her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson (confirmed by Patti). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after 1942, and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen may be her first husband William Farrell; not settled. Both are in Photos below.

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Open question
⚠️ That date is self-reported on a form he signed, not a birth register. It is evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not treated here as though it were one S148
Open question
⚠️ The card's own arithmetic agrees with it, which is why it is trusted as far as it goes. Age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 falls inside that window S148
Open question
⚠️ The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer
California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from this card S48S49
Open question
⚠️ Three documents now point at December 1897 and none of them is a birth register. A self-affirmed draft card, an age column in 1900 and an age column in 1920 are consistent with one another; they are not the same thing as a civil birth entry or a baptism, and no California birth record for him has been found S148S150
Open question
⚠️ Their daughter Aileane, born August 1918, is not on that sheet, though she should be about sixteen months old. The record does not explain it and nothing is invented to fill the gap S150
Open question
⚠️ Frank Sr appears nowhere on the draft card. The father/son link is not evidenced by it and continues to rest on the 1910 and 1920 census sheets S146S48
Open question
⚠️ The middle name "Thomas" is not confirmed and is not promoted. Every record retrieved gives "Frank T." or plain "Frank"
the initial is documented, the name behind it is Probable, from a user tree S12. This page called him "Frank Thomas Silva" until 14 September 2026; that was going further than the evidence.

Photos & documents 4 photos · 3 documents

Photos (4)
Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print) c. 1908-1912 Confirmed Download · → card
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print)
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank Silva Jr, his mother Anna L. Silva and his father Frank Silva Sr — studio portrait, c. 1908–1912 (Patricia Collins's print) c. 1908-1912 AI-assisted enhancement of the original photo Download · Original photo · → card
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 Confirmed Download · → card
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection
Enhanced (AI-assisted, non-generative): glare reduced, cleaned and upscaled. Frank T. Da Silva Jr and Mildred A. (Rose) Silva, with Mildred's sister Helen (Rose) and her husband Victor Johnson — from the Patricia Collins collection c. 1915-1920 AI-assisted enhancement of the original photo Download · Original photo · → card
Documents (3)

Documents · 3 page images all documents

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.

Page card front + Registrar's Report of U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 — Local Board for Division No. 2, County of Alameda, State of California, **Hayward, California**; serial 939, order A 2696, registered 12 September 1918 (Ancestry coll. 6482, record 29586428; image 005240885_02265) · full resolution 3048 x 1464 px, DeepZoom level 12, 18/18 tiles, both sides on one image

U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 — Local Board for Division No. 2, County of Alameda, State of California, **Hayward, California**; serial 939, order A 2696, registered 12 September 1918 (Ancestry coll. 6482, record 29586428; image 005240885_02265) · full resolution 3048 x 1464 px, DeepZoom level 12, 18/18 tiles, both sides on one image — page card front + Registrar's Report

Military draft registration · 12 September 1918

Coste's saloon, Mission San José — Frank Da Silva Jr (third from left), its speakeasy owner per family; c. 1920–1924 — newspaper clipping annotated 'Grandpa Silva / Mom's Dad', c. 1920–1924

Coste's saloon, Mission San José — Frank Da Silva Jr (third from left), its speakeasy owner per family; c. 1920–1924 — newspaper clipping annotated 'Grandpa Silva / Mom's Dad'

Newspaper clipping, annotated · c. 1920–1924

Restored (AI-assisted colour; faces from the original): descreened, cleaned, upscaled 3x and colourized. Coste's saloon, Mission San José — Frank Da Silva Jr (third from left), its speakeasy owner per family; c. 1920–1924 — newspaper clipping annotated 'Grandpa Silva / Mom's Dad', c. 1920–1924

Restored (AI-assisted colour; faces from the original): descreened, cleaned, upscaled 3x and colourized. Coste's saloon, Mission San José — Frank Da Silva Jr (third from left), its speakeasy owner per family; c. 1920–1924 — newspaper clipping annotated 'Grandpa Silva / Mom's Dad'

Newspaper clipping, annotated · c. 1920–1924

Frank T. Silva · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

10 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  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. S48US Census, 1920 — Washington Judicial Township (originally Washington, ED 213), Alameda County; household 132, sheet 8B line 62. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MH38-KY1. Frank Silva, 22, married, born California 1898, relationship to head of household: "Son", both parents born Portugal; in the household with "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California — an OCR mangling of Mildred. The relationship column is what makes the father–son link a record rather than an inference from a "Jr" on a headstone.
  3. 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].
  4. S53California Death Index, 1905–1939 — Frank T Silva, born 1897, died 3 December 1924, Alameda, ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-D7JH; and Anna L Silva, born 1868, died 17 December 1938, Alameda, 1:1:QKS9-FLRF. A state death index. Four other Frank Silvas died in the county in the same window; none carries both the middle initial T and the 3 December date. Anna's entry is what makes the 1940 census's "Widowed" line interlock.
  5. S54Find a Grave Index — three consecutive ARKs from one cemetery transcription batch at Saint Josephs Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, Alameda County: Frank Silva (Sr) 1863–1946 1:1:QVVZ-XNZK, Anna L. Silva 1868–1938 1:1:QVVZ-XNZ6, Frank Silva, Jr 1897–1924 1:1:QVVZ-XNZ2. St. Joseph's is the Portuguese Catholic cemetery of the Mission San Jose district. All three are flagged "Photograph Included," which is the cheapest unexplored route to the island. ⚠️ Indexing artefact: FamilySearch's place authority wrongly normalises Frank Jr's Event Place to "Saint Josephs Cemetery, Preemption, Mercer, Illinois"; the Event Place (Original) on the same record reads "Fremont, Alameda, California." There is no Illinois connection.
  6. S1411900 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7602, records 36140336 and 36140335 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 4118417_00621. Enumeration District 404, sheet 14 B, dwelling 275, family 278, enumerated 15 June 1900 by Antone Dutre. Read from the image at full resolution — 3700 × 3708 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 73–78: Frank Silva, head, 1863, age 36, married 13 years, Farmer, alien, born the Azores of Azorean parents, immigrated 1888, 12 years in the United States; Annie, wife, Jan 1866, age 33, immigrated 1895, 5 years in the United States, 2 children born, 2 living; Mary, daughter, Aug 1896, California; Frank, son, Dec 1898, California; Joe, partner, Mar 1863, arrived 1885; and Antonio S. Escobar, laborer, Dec 1869 the Azores, arrived 1895. The eight-year arrival gap is confirmed on the page and given a shape. His 1888 and her 1895 are both written in the immigration column, and beside them the sheet records married 13 years — about 1887, a year before he emigrated. The reading the image supports is a marriage in the islands, his passage alone in 1888, hers seven years later, and the first child born in California in August 1896. ⚠ That is a reading, not a settled fact: no document here states a marriage place or a separation, and years-married columns are soft. ⚠ Her birth year is not settled by this sheet, and the age column leans against the record. The image reads Jan 1866, but age 33 at the 15 June 1900 date is right for January 1867 and would be 34 for 1866. The sheet contradicts itself by a year and cannot decide between the record's 1866 and the tree's about-1867; her year stays open. Also new: Antonio S. Escobar is in the household and arrived in the same year she did. Escobar is the surname of her father, Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up; a brother travelling with her is the obvious reading, but the sheet states no relationship — he is entered as Laborer. Not confirmed. The month in Frank's date-of-birth cell is not legible with confidence; the year 1863 and the age 36 are clear and agree. Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant.
  7. S1461910 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7884, records 939010 and 181169056 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 31111_4327262-00314. Supervisor's District 3, Enumeration District 158, sheet 4 B, dwelling 86, family 91, Vallejo Street, enumerated 19 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution — 4042 × 2746 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 93–95: Frank Silva, head, age 45, married once, 23 years, Foreman, wine cellar, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue Portuguese; Annie, wife, age 42, married once, 23 years, 4 children born, 1 living, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue English; and Frank, son, age 12, single, born California of Portuguese parents. The home is recorded owned, free of mortgage, a house. This sheet settles the household and opens three questions. Father and son are on one document, in one household — Frank Jr is entered as Son, born in California of two Portuguese parents. The two men of the same name are no longer told apart only by the tree's own edges; a census page now does it. His age 12 in April 1910 is consistent with the 2 December 1897 the tree carries, but ⚠ the sheet gives no day and no month and does not independently date his birth. Married 23 years — about 1887 — agrees with the 1900 sheet's thirteen years [S141] and with the 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta marriage record. ⚠ The arrival year is now four witnesses and four answers, and it is further from settled than before. The 1900 sheet wrote 1888 for him and 1895 for her; this sheet writes 1887 for both; the 1930 sheet, read off the image, writes 1891 for him and 1899 for her [S147]. The disagreement about her is eleven years wide. No date on this site may harden out of these four — only a passenger manifest or a naturalisation paper can close it. ⚠ The naturalisation cell is overwritten and blotted. A superscript that reads as "Na" sits on the rule between lines 92 and 93 and cannot be assigned to either row with confidence, so this page does not say whether he was naturalised by 1910. The 1900 sheet had recorded him alien after twelve years, and the California Voter Register hint that looked like the answer belongs to a different man — that Frank Silva was naturalised in San Francisco in 1874, when ours was eleven and still in the Azores. ⚠ The age column disagrees with the gravestone by about a year. Age 45 at the 19 April 1910 enumeration puts the birth between April 1864 and April 1865, where the tree and the stone carry June 1863. This is recorded as a discrepancy, not a correction: an age column is the enumerator's arithmetic and not a witness to a birth, and the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism already held on file outranks it. ⚠ An earlier version of this entry said the 1930 and 1940 returns made it three censuses pointing at 1864. That was our arithmetic, not the record's, and it is withdrawn. The 1930 sheet was enumerated on 7 April 1930 and gives his age as 66, which means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — June 1863 falls inside that window, so 1930 supports the gravestone rather than contradicting it [S147]. This 1910 page remains the one age column that genuinely points later. None of it settles the birth year: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863 either. ⚠ The hardest new fact on the page is a count, not a name: Annie bore four children and only one was living in April 1910. In 1900 she had two born, two living — Mary, b. August 1896, and Frank. By 1910 only Frank Jr survives. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910. No names, no dates and no places are on this document, and none are supplied. His occupation has moved from Farmer in 1900 to Foreman in a wine cellar, as a wage earner. As in 1900, Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — re-read under Anna's hint, and three things on the sheet had never been adjudicated. Her own columns read four children born, one living — three children of Frank and Anna Silva died before April 1910 and are named nowhere in this research. Anna could speak English in 1910 and Frank could not: the column asks whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken; her cell reads English, his Portuguese. Ancestry files hers as Native Tongue: English, inverting the column. Frank's occupation reads Foreman, Wine Cellar, wage earner. Both arrivals read 1887 and M1, 23 years puts the marriage at c.1887; the index carries only Anna's year, which is why the conflict with 1930 [S147] never showed in the queue.
  8. S1471930 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Mission Precinct, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6224, record 88915983, image 4532332_00361. Supervisor's District 8, Enumeration District 1-349, sheet 2 B, dwelling 43, family 43, enumerated 7 April 1930 by an enumerator signing as "Iny W. Cull" — ⚠ the given name is not confidently legible and is not asserted. Read from the image at full resolution — 3932 × 2844 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 78–80: Frank Silva, head, age 66, 24 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1891, naturalisation Na, occupation beginning "Farm"; Anna, wife, age 61, 19 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1899, naturalisation Na; and Aileen, grand daughter, age 11, born California of California-born parents. The home is owned, valued $1,000, with no radio set. Both adults are recorded able to read, write and speak English, mother tongue Portuguese. 🔑 This sheet answers the naturalisation question the 1910 page could not. Column 23 reads Na — naturalised — for both Frank and Anna, in a clean, unblotted cell. That is not a guess at a smudge: the capital was checked against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows — the enumerator's capital N in "No" (col. 16) is a flat-topped crossbarred loop and matches the cell exactly, while his capital P in "Portugal" (col. 18) is a tall open ascender with a closed bowl and does not resemble it. The 1910 sheet's blotted, unassignable superscript [S146] is now corroborated from an independent document. 🔴 The consequence is a document we do not yet hold: a naturalisation file exists. He was naturalised in California somewhere between the 1900 return, which recorded him alien after twelve years, and this one. A naturalisation packet carries an arrival date and very often the vessel, and is now the single highest-value unpulled record for this family. 🔑 Age 66 is consistent with June 1863 and does not point at 1864. Ancestry indexes this record abt 1864 by subtracting 66 from 1930, but enumeration was 7 April, so age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — and the June 1863 on the gravestone falls inside that window. ⚠ The earlier framing on this site that "three censuses agree on about 1864" was an artefact of index arithmetic and has been withdrawn [S146]. It does not settle the birth year in the other direction either: the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863. 🆕 Ages at first marriage — 24 and 19 — put the marriage at about 1887–1888 from each side independently, agreeing with the 12 June 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta record and with 1910's married 23 years. 🆕 Aileane Marie Silva is in this household at age 11, entered as grand daughter — her grandparents were raising her after Frank Jr died in 1924. This is the first document placing her in that house. ⚠ The sheet gives only an age, which brackets her birth to 8 April 1918 × 7 April 1919; it gives no day and no month. 🔴 And the arrival year got worse for the second sheet running: four witnesses, four answers. 1900 → him 1888, her 1895; 1910 → 1887 for both; this sheet → him 1891, her 1899. The spread on her is now eleven years. ⚠ Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked — the second digit of each has filled in — and 1891/1899 are read at DeepZoom level 12 against the clean 1877 and 1907 entries elsewhere on the same page as controls; Ancestry's index also reads 1891. No date on this site may harden into a settled arrival year. Another census cannot close this; a manifest or the naturalisation file can. ⚠ Frank Silva Jr is absent, as expected — he died in 1924, which is what makes this sheet Frank Sr by definition rather than by inference. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the sheet contradicts itself, and that is why it cannot simply be preferred. Frank 1891, Anna 1899 in the immigration column, eight years apart on consecutive lines — and on the same lines age at first marriage 24 against 66, and 19 against 61, which both put the marriage at c.1888, before either arrival. Either the arrival years are wrong, or the couple married in the Azores and emigrated separately, husband first — a reading this sheet raises and cannot settle. Open question; review queue. A passenger list or the naturalisation petitions (both are marked Na) would close it.
  9. S148World War I draft registration card — Frank Silva Jr., 12 September 1918, Mission San Jose, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6482, record 29586428, image 005240885_02265. Local Board for Division No. 2, County of Alameda, Hayward, California; serial 939, order A 2696; the third and final WWI registration. Read from the image at full resolution — 3048 × 1464 px, 18/18 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026; the image carries both sides side by side, the Registration Card and the Registrar's Report. 🔑 A full birth date for Frank Jr in his own hand: "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897", on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true." Everything else this site holds for that date is an index or a gravestone. ⚠ It is a SELF-REPORTED date on a form the subject signed, not a birth register — evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not written up as though it were one. ⚠ The arithmetic on the card agrees with itself, which is the reason to trust it as far as it goes: age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 sits inside that window. 🔑 Box 10, NATIVE BORN, is ticked; boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (Citizen by Father's Naturalization Before Registrant's Majority) are empty, as are both alien boxes. Frank Jr was a citizen by birth — independent of, and consistent with, the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 [S147]. 🆕 The first document in which Frank Jr himself names Mildred. Questions 19/20, nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address. That dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth. 🆕 First occupation and employer on any document for him: Laborer, Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose. 🆕 Physical description: medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. His permanent home address is Mission San Jose — the family's township in 1900, 1910 and 1930, with no gap. ⚠ The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state of birth, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer; California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from here. ⚠ Frank Sr appears nowhere on the document — the father/son link is not evidenced by this card and continues to rest on the census sheets already cited. ⚠ The serial is read as 939 with a soft final digit, and the registrar's signature was not confidently legible and is not transcribed.
  10. S1501920 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Silva household, Mission San Jose Town, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6061, record 3289996, image 4293692-00489. Supervisor's District 5, Enumeration District 213, Sheet 8-B, lines 59–63, dwelling 131, family 132, enumerated 17 January 1920 against a census reference date of 1 January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution — 4000 × 2896 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. 🔑 The whole household stands in one frame: Silva, Frank, Head, M, W, 64, married, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, born Portugal, Farmer, general farm; Anna, Wife, 62, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, Portugal; Frank, Son, 22, married, born California, Laborer, general work; Mildred, Daughter-in-law, 21, married, born California; and Vargas, Frank, Boarder, 7. Tenure O F — owned, free of mortgage — with the farm-schedule mark in the left margin. 🔑 This is the first and only document that places Frank Jr and Mildred under his parents’ roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card — now read rather than indexed. 🔑 It is also the first document anywhere on this record to DATE the naturalisation. Every other sheet writes only Na; this one writes 1904 for both of them, and 1895 as the year of immigration. ⚠ A naturalisation year on a census is a pointer, not a certificate — it points at an Alameda County or federal naturalisation file of about 1904, which has not been found. 🔑 Frank Sr was a farmer here and a grocer in 1940 [S149]; the change of trade is now documented at both ends rather than inferred. ⚠ WHAT THIS SHEET GETS WRONG, STATED PLAINLY: the two parents’ ages are overstated by eight to ten years. Frank Sr is entered as 64; June 1863 makes him 56. Anna is entered as 62; 1867 makes her 52. These cells are rejected here, and the reason is on the same five lines: the two young adults are exact. Frank Jr at 22 is right for 2 December 1897 on 1 January 1920, and Mildred at 21 is right for July 1898. The enumerator was not systematically careless — the error is confined to the two people whose ages an informant would have been guessing. The 1910, 1930 and 1940 sheets all agree with June 1863 once their reference dates are applied [S146][S147][S149]. The 64 is recorded on this page and rejected on this page. ⚠ Aileane Marie Silva, born August 1918, is NOT on this sheet. She should be about sixteen months old. The household runs Head, Wife, Son, Daughter-in-law, Boarder and stops. This record does not explain her absence and no explanation is invented for her here. ⚠ The 1920 census records ages only — no months, no days. ⚠ "Portugal" is the whole birthplace on this sheet; Azores and Fayal come from other documents [S67]. ⚠ The enumerator’s signature is read as Anna A. Solon with low confidence, and the boarder’s age is a single glyph read as 7. ⚠ The boarder is entered as Boarder, not as kin; no relationship to this family is claimed for him. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — re-served under Anna's hint (rid 3289995) and re-read at full resolution. The street is Vallejo Street, written in the street column; the farm-schedule number is 79, a line on the 1920 agricultural schedule for E.D. 213 not yet sought; Frank Sr answers Yes to speaking English in 1920, where in 1910 he did not [S146]; Mildred's father and mother are both born in Portugal on her own line. ⚠ Anna's age reads 62 on the image, not the index's 52; the rejection of this sheet's ages stands. ⚠ The arrival year here is 1895 for both — a fourth answer; no arrival year is published as settled.

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