Not yet fully verified. Facts are tagged with their confidence level; family-supplied details have not all been checked against a primary record.
Biographical Information
Philip Basile was born in Chicago on 2 January 1908 Confirmed - registered as Filippo Basilo - a son of the Sicilian immigrants Agostino Basile and Rosa Muratore Confirmed. He worked in maintenance Confirmed, married Antoinette Perino in 1937 Confirmed, and raised his family first in Chicago and then in Crete, Will County. He died at Orland Park on 10 November 1978 Confirmed and is buried at St Mary Cemetery, Evergreen Park.
Confidence of each fact: Confirmed primary record · Probable strong but unproven · Inherited family knowledge · Conflict sources disagree · Hypothesis working theory
Full Name & Name Variations
Philip Basile
Filippo Basilo - as registered, 1908 Cook County birth certificateInherited
Filippo Basile - Italian formInherited
Philip Basile - Americanised form used through lifeInherited
CONFIRMED - US Social Security Death Index: PHILIP BASILE, born 2 JANUARY 1908, died NOVEMBER 1978 at Orland Park, Cook County, Illinois. The chart's '1908' is correct; the exact date and the death are new.Confirmed
CONFIRMED - Illinois, Cook County Marriages 1871-1969: PHILIP BASILE, aged 29, married ANTOINETTE PERINO, aged 23, on 4 SEPTEMBER 1937 in Cook County, Illinois. The stated ages imply births of 1908 and 1914 - both matching the family chart exactly.Confirmed
CONFIRMED as father of A.P.B. via Anthony's 1942 Cook County birth certificate.Confirmed
PROBABLE burial - Illinois, Archdiocese of Chicago Cemetery Records: Philip Basile, burial indexed as '14 November 1878', which is impossible against a 1908 birth. Almost certainly 14 NOVEMBER 1978, which agrees with the SSDI death of November 1978. See the century-digit note in the research log.Probable
CONFLICT - a 'Philip Basile' with the same birth date of 2 January 1908 appears in a US public-records database with a residence at Homer, Champaign County, Illinois on 1 February 2004. That is impossible for a man who died in 1978. Either a different man or a corrupt record. Logged, not resolved.Conflict
CONFIRMED - Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates: registered as FILIPPO BASILO, born 2 JANUARY 1908 at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Parents ROSA MURATORE and AGOSTINO BASILO. The record was filed under the ITALIAN forename and a VARIANT SURNAME - which is why every search under 'Philip Basile' had missed it.Confirmed
CONFIRMED - Illinois, Cook County Deaths 1871-1998: PHILLIP N BASILE, born 2 January 1908, died 10 NOVEMBER 1978 at Orland Park, Cook County; buried 14 NOVEMBER 1978, Evergreen Park, Cook County. Parents AGOSTINO BASILE and ROSE MURATORE. Spouse indexed as ANTOINETTE PERINA.Confirmed
MIDDLE INITIAL 'N' - the death record gives him as Phillip N Basile. The family chart carried no middle name for him. The N is unexplained; his birth registration as Filippo offers no obvious source for it.Inherited
The death record supersedes the SSDI's vaguer 'November 1978' with an exact date of 10 November 1978.Inherited
This record CLOSES V-16 and confirms both his parents from a primary source.Inherited
BACKGROUND SOLIDIFIED (consolidation pass): OCCUPATION - MAINTENANCE (1978 death record). Married Antoinette Perino 4 Sep 1937. 1940 CENSUS - Chicago, Cook, with wife Antoinette. 1950 CENSUS (12 Apr 1950) - CRETE, WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, with wife Antonette and children ANTHONY (b.1942, our line), PHYLLIS and R.M.B.. Later lived at 10847 W 153rd St; died 10 Nov 1978 at Orland Park, buried St Mary, Evergreen Park.Inherited
OCCUPATION SHARPENED (Session 69). The 1950 census (Crete, ED 99-8) gives his occupation precisely: Laborer in a plumbing-fitting factory. So his working life ran from factory laborer (1950) to maintenance work (per his 1978 death record). Household: wife Antonette (36) and children Anthony (8), Phyllis (4), R.M.B. (1).Confirmed
CHILDREN (with Antoinette Perino): A.P.B. (1942 - our line), and his sisters PHYLLIS and R.M.B. - the latter two newly identified from the 1950 census.Inherited
Sources & Documents (5 sources)
1950 US Census - Philip Basile household, Crete, Will Co., Illinois ↗United States Census, 1950 (ED 99-8), entry for Philip Basile (b.1908), 12 April 1950, Crete, Will, Illinois; occupation **Laborer, plumbing-fitting factory**; wife Antonette; children Anthony, Phylis, R.M.B.. Also 1940 census, Chicago (Phil & Antoinette Basile).FamilySearch / US Census
Cook County birth register — Filippo Basilo, 1908 ↗Illinois, Cook County Birth Certificates 1871-1953, entry for Filippo Basilo (Phillip N Basile), born 2 January 1908, Chicago; certificate 861. FATHER Agostino Basilo, age 32 (b. c.1876), BIRTHPLACE 'Cattanea, Italy'. MOTHER Rosa Muratore, age 25 (b. c.1883), BIRTHPLACE 'Cattanea, Italy'. 'Cattanea' is a clerk's phonetic spelling, almost certainly CATANIA, Sicily. This is the record that first gave a birthplace and birth years for the Basile/Muratore couple.FamilySearch / Cook County
Cook County death record — Phillip N Basile, 1978Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998, entry for Phillip N Basile, born 2 January 1908, died 10 November 1978, Orland Park; buried 14 November 1978, Evergreen Park. Parents Agostino Basile and Rose Muratore.FamilySearch / Cook County
Family knowledge — supplied by BasileOral/handed-down family information supplied by P.J.B., July 2026, and the original family chart (Family Tree.rtf / FamilyTree.html).Family