Regarding your request
for information on JOSEPH (JOSE) SERVE.The book
"Origins Of New
Mexico Families,A genealogy of The Spanish
Period."Revised Edition.By:Fray Angelico Chavez page 393 has
about half a page on the 3 SERVE brothers and the different variations of the
name.They were the sons of JOSE EXARVE (Charvet?)
and a lady from
the Northern Nations Name Luisa Or Lucia.The book
has a reference to another publication "El Palacio" with
additional information.
1-JOSE SERVE Y MARIA
ISABEL CASADOS
2-JOSE MANUEL SERVE Y
DOMINGA COCA
3-LUIS SERVE Y JULIANA
AGUILAR
MARIA POLONIA SERVE
daughter of the second brother JOSE MANUEL SERVE was
married with
HIPOLITO SALAZAR who was one of those executed by
the Americans in the
1847 Revolt.
The sources for
information on RUFINA SERVE are as follows.
The Taos Marriages are
from the book by the same name.By:David Salazar and
Bill Trujillo.
12-13-1848.JOSE ANTONIO
GONZALES with ANTONIA SERVE Frame 163.Page 229.Book Of Marriages (Box 38)
1845-1856.
11-2-1841.JOSE ANTONIO
GONZALES With MARIA GUADALUPE CORTEZ.Frame 1156.Page 144.
From the book"Taos
Baptisms."By David Salazar and Bill Trujillo.B-48
Taos (Box 72) 1830-1833,Frame
68.Page 350.March 20,1831 MARIA RUFINA of San
Fernandes,5 days
old,Daughter of Jose Manuel Serve and Maria Dominga
Coca.PGP:Jose Serve Y not Listed.MGP:Jose Maria Coca Y Juana
Venavides.Pads:Jose Maria Sanchez and Ana Maria Serve,all residents of
San Fernandes.
A prior bautismo of
Jose Maria Fernandes (1-25-1828) Child of Jose
Manuel Serve and Maria
Dominga Coca identifys the Paternal Grandparents as
Don Jose Serve Y Maria Luisa Tnta ? Maternal Grandparents as
Jose Maria Coca and Juana Benavides.
Side note..Maria
Polonia Serve's (sister to Rufina Serve) Husband
Hipolito Salazar was one of those Executed (Hanged) by the
Americans in 1847 for his "involvement in the Revolt of 1847."
The Book "Taos Baptisms
1701-1848."By:Thomas D.Martinez Page 120 and 121.Has
a Jose Maria
Cortez with a Magdalena Brito a Maria Magdalena
Brito a Maria Rita Brito and a Maria Brito.It has an entry On MARIA
GUADALUPE CORTEZ (5 days Twin) Bapt.12-27-1826.Daughter of
Jose Maria Cortez and Maria Rita Brito,Vecinos de
San Fernando.PGP:Pedro
Cortez Y Teodora Martin.MGP:Francisco Brito Y
Margarita Romero.Pads:Nicolas
Tafoya and Maria Manuela Medina.The other twin
listed as Maria Dela
Lus Cortez.
From the book "Origins of New Mexico Families,A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period.By:Fray Angelico Chavez.Revised Edition,Page 393.Has a section on Jose Manuel Serve as the son of Jose Exarve and Maria Luisa (Antonia) "de la Nacion del Norte."(Plains Indian)Jose Serve and Maria Luisa had three sons.Jose,Jose Manuel and Luis.It goes on to say that Jose Serve was a French or French Canadian.Who "reached Taos a Generation before the other French-Canadian trappers arrived in force." |