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."