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Person · José Francisco da Silva Jr
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline659 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople351 cards, by generationJosé Francisco da Silva Jr
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments1034 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1235, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
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separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
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person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
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not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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- Died
- 30 October 1878, Cedros
- Parents
- José Francisco da Silva & Florência Luiza
- Sources
- 2
- Images
- 1
Life in the order the records give it
Death1878
Died 30 October 1878, Cedros, aged thirty-five
born
c. 1843 — at his father's house in the lugar da Fonte Nova, “having recently arrived from
Rio de Janeiro”, marital state unknown
S1229Death1843
A FamilySearch index entry for this death reads as though he were Frank Sr himself ("b. 1843, spouse Florencia"); the archive image makes clear he is the elder brother, named for their mother on the index line only by coincidence of surname
Photos & documents 0 photos · 1 document
Documents (1)
Documents · 1 page image 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.
In the record
Generation 5 — the immigrants and the frontier
- S1228Baptism of Francisco (Frank Silva Sr), 9 June 1862 — Santa Bárbara (Cedros), Faial. Volume
FAL-HT-CEDROS-B-1861-1870, image 0042. Entry Nº 35: baptised 9 June 1862, ‘filho legitimo, primeiro do nome’ of José Francisco da Silva, lavrador, and of Florencia Luiza, of the lugar da Fonte Nova; paternal grandparents Antonio Francisco da Silva and Anna Francisca; maternal José Francisco and Anna Felicia. BPARJJG (Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional João José da Graça), Horta — Registos Paroquiais, via Centro de Conhecimento dos Açores (CulturAçores), free public access, read by eye from the image, 4 October 2026 (SR-1004A). Archive copy. Corrects the 21 Sep sidecar in three places: ‘primeiro do nome’ means first child of that name, not first son — he had an elder brother, José Francisco, b. c.1843 [S1229]; the mother is Florencia Luiza, not “Silveira”; the maternal grandmother is Anna Felicia, not “Anna Silveira”. - S1229Burial of José Francisco da Silva (the son), 30 October 1878 — Cedros, Faial. Volume
FAL-HT-CEDROS-O-1875-1885, image 0048. Entry Nº 49: died 30 October 1878, aged thirty-five, at the lugar da Fonte Nova, ‘por ter há pouco chegado do Rio de Janeiro’, native of this parish, son of José Francisco da Silva, native of the parish of Pedro Miguel of this island, and of Florencia Luiza, native of this parish. BPARJJG (Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional João José da Graça), Horta — Registos Paroquiais, via Centro de Conhecimento dos Açores (CulturAçores), free public access, read by eye from the image, 4 October 2026 (SR-1004A). Not Frank Sr's father — he is the elder brother (b. c.1843), just back from Brazil. Second record naming the father's birth parish as Pedro Miguel. The father was alive in 1878 and in Feb 1880.