APPENDICES

Acadians Who Found Refuge in Louisiana, February 1764-early 1800s

GODIN/GAUDIN

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FRANCE and ACADIA

Maurice Godin, cavalier de Givet, in the province of Namur, present-day Belgium, married Huguette Pampelune of the principality of Sedan, France, in c1560.  Their son Vorle, who worked as a teinturier, or dyer, at Châtillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy, married Brigitte Gouzier of Bar-sur-Seine, Champagne, in c1595.  Vorle's son Claude, who became a carpenter at Châtillon-sur-Seine, married Marie Bardin of Savolles, Champagne, before July 1624, when daughter Jeanne was baptized at St.-Vorle de Châtillon-sur-Seine.  

Claude's son Pierre, born at Châtillon-sur-Seine in May 1630, emigrated to New France in his early 20s.  He reached Montréal in September 1653 and married Jeanne, daughter of Louis Rousseliere, in October 1654.  Like his father, Pierre dit Châtillon was a master carpenter.  He and Jeanne left Montréal in 1664, lived at Charlesbourg near Québec, where they were counted in 1666, then at Québec, returned to Montréal in the 1670s, and went to Chignecto in Acadia probably with the sieur de La Vallière, the seigneur of Beaubassin, between June 1676 and June 1677 "to continue the construction work already under way."  Pierre and his family lived with Roger Caissie at Chignecto while Pierre plied his trade.  The family also owned land in the Port-Royal valley.  Pierre died either at Port-Royal or Chignecto in the 1680s in his 50s.  He and Jeanne had nine children, including four sons, three of whom created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Magdelaine dit La Douceur, Fortin dit LaGrandeur, Nepveu, Henry, and Martin families.  Nearly all of these daughters settled in the St. Lawrence valley.  The one exception was youngest daughter Anne dit Châtillon, born at Montréal in January 1672, who married Pierre, son of Pierre Martin of Port-Royal and an Indian woman, probably at Port-Royal in c1686.  In the early 1700s, Pierre and Anne moved to Île St.-Jean, today's Prince Edward Island, probably to escape British authority in Nova Scotia.  Anne died at St.-Pierre-du-Nord on the island in February 1742; she was 70 years old.  

Pierre dit Châtillon's oldest son Laurent dit Châtillon dit Beauséjour, born at Montréal in August 1655, married first to Anne, daughter of Francois Guérin and Anne Blanchard, probably at Chignecto in c1677.  He settled for a while at Pointe Beauséjour near Beaubassin (the future site of French Fort Beauséjour took its name from the ridge on which he lived) and at Port-Royal but returned to the St. Lawrence valley.  He lived at St.-Pierre-du-Sud, St.-François-du-Sud, now Montmagny, and St.-Antoine-de-Tilly, where his wife died in January 1718, and again at Montréal.  Laurent and Anne had 13 children, including three sons who married into the Pellerin dit Caudebec, Roy, and Verdon families.  Their daughters married into the Marchand (Marcheguay) dit Poitiers, Mercier dit Caudebec, Carrière dit Carcassone, Gareau dit Lagarde, Rainville, Berthelet dit Le Savoyard, and Quévillon families.  Laurent remarried to Marie-Anne, daughter of Mathieu Brunet dit Lestang and Marie Blanchard and widow of Antoine Pilon, at Pointe-Claire, present-day Québec Province, in June 1719.  They had no children.  Laurent died at Rivière-des-Prairies, Québec, in May 1737 in his mid-80s.  All of his married sons and most of his married daughters settled in the St. Lawrence valley.  One of his daughters, Marie dit Châtillon, wife of Louis Marchand dit Poitiers, married at Port-Royal in November 1705 but moved to Port-Toulouse, Île-Royale, now Cape Breton Island, where she died in the 1730s.  

Pierre dit Châtillon's third son Pierre dit Châtillon dit Desrochers, born at Québec in March 1667, married Marie-Jeanne, daughter of Jacques Cochon, at Château-Richer, Québec, in July 1689.  They had only three children, two daughters and a son, Jean-Baptiste, who died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, in February 1723, age 18, before he could create a family of his own.  Their daughters married into the Genest dit Labarre and Croteau families.  Pierre dit Châtillon dit Desrochers died at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly in April 1739, age 72.  Though Pierre dit Châtillon dit Desrochers lived in greater Acadia as a child, none of his daughters settled there.  They both remained at St.-Antoine-de-Tilly.

Pierre dit Châtillon's fourth and youngest son Jean, born at Montréal in October 1669, may not have survived childhood.  

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The only branch of the Godin family in New France affected by the Acadian Grand Dérangement was that of Pierre dit Châtillon's second son, Gabriel dit Châtillon.  And members from only Gabriel's family emigrated to Louisiana. 

Gabriel dit Châtillon, later sieur de Bellefontaine, born at Montréal in July 1661, married Andrée-Angélique, daughter of Robert Jasne, Jeanne or Joannes, at Québec in July 1690.  Gabriel lived at Charlebourg, Québec, when he was young and was counted at Port-Royal in the late 1680s.  After his marriage, however, he and his wife settled on Rivière St.-Jean  in present-day New Brunswick, where French authorities had given Gabriel a seigneury.  He and Andrée-Angélique had 12 children, born at Rivière St.-Jean, including eight sons who created families of their own.  Their daughters married into the Saindon, Dugas, and Part families.  Gabriel died at Rivière St.-Jean before August 1730 in his late 60s.  

Oldest son Louis dit Bellefontaine, born in c1693, married a woman whose name has been lost to history, in c1736.  Louis died at St.-François-du-Lac, Québec, in February 1749, age 57.

Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour, born in c1695, married Marie-Anne, daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, at Rivière St.-Jean in c1726.  This was the beginning of an important connection between these two families.  Joseph served as a major of the local militia during King George's War in the late 1740s.  He died at Cherbourg, France, in December 1776, age 81.  

Jacques-Philippe dit Bellefeuille, born in c1697, married Anne-Marie, another daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, probably at Rivière St.-Jean in c1730.  He died at Gentilly, Québec, in February 1763, in his mid-60s.

Pierre-Joseph dit Châtillon dit Préville, born in the late 1690s or early 1700s, married Marie-Josèphe, daughter of Alexandre Bourg, at Grand-Pré in August 1730.  He died in January 1745, before Le Grand Dérangement.  

Jean-Baptiste dit Lincour, born probably in the early 1700s, married Anastasie, another daughter of Alexandre Bourg, in c1729.  He died during Le Grand Dérangement, perhaps at Halifax, where British authorities counted his wife and four children in August 1763 and called her a widow.

Charles dit Bellefontaine dit Boisjoli, born in c1708, married Marie, daughter of Charles Melanson, at Port-Royal in August 1735.  British authorities counted him and his family also in the prison at Halifax in August 1763.

René dit Jean-René dit Valcour, born in the late 1700s or early 1710s, married first to Françoise Dugas in c1734, then to Françoise, yet another daughter of Barthélemy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, probably at Rivière St.-Jean in c1743.  

Youngest son Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine, born in c1715, married first to a woman whose name has been lost to history, in c1739.  He remarried to Marguerite, another daughter of Barthélémy Bergeron dit d'Amboise, probably at Rivière St.-Jean in c1740.  

LE GRAND DÉRANGEMENT

Le Grand Dérangement of the 1750s scattered this large family to the winds:

Living in territory controlled by France, the Godins of Rivière St.-Jean escaped the British round up of their fellow Acadians in Nova Scotia in the autumn of 1755.  Their respite from British oppression was short-lived, however.  After the fall of the French stronghold at Louisbourg in July 1758, British forces raided the Rivière St.-Jean valley the following September and destroyed the settlements there, including Ste.-Anne-du-Pays-Bas with its church and 147 houses.  Gabriel dit Châtillon Godin's descendants survived the onslaught as best they could.  In February 1759, second son Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and his family were captured by New English rangers, who forced Joseph to watch as they killed his wife and children; after being held as prisoners of war at Halifax, Joseph and the rest of his family were deported to France in 1759.  Gabriel dit Châtillon's third son, Jacques-Philippe dit Bellefeuille, and his family dodged the British and fled north to the St. Lawrence valley.  Gabriel dit Châtillon's second daughter Marie-Yvette, wife of Michel Saindon, also dodged the British and returned to Rivière St.-Jean at the end of the war, but moved on to the St.-Lawrence valley, where she died in April 1795, age 86.  Meanwhile, Gabriel dit Châtillon's younger sons, Jean-Baptiste dit Lincour, Charles dit Bellefontaine dit Boisjoli, and Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine, and their families dodged the British and moved northeast to Miramichi  and then to Restigouche on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore, where they joined other Acadian refugees.  Their sisters Marie-Charlotte, wife of Jean Dugas, and Angélique, wife of Pierre Part, also sought refuge on the Gulf of St. Lawrence shore.  In the early 1760s, British forces captured Miramichi and Restigouche and sent hundreds of Acadians, including the Godins, to prisoner-of-war compounds in Nova Scotia, most of them to Halifax, where they were confined for the rest of the war.  

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After the French and Indian War finally ended in 1763, descendants of  Gabriel dit Châtillon Godin settled near their cousins in the St. Lawrence valley and at various places in what became the Maritimes provinces.  In the late 1700s and early 1800s, they could be found at Québec City; at Batiscan, Bécancour, Gentilly, Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pérade, and Ste.-Anne-de-la-Pocatière above Québec; and at Beauport, Île d'Orleans, Kamouraska, and L'Isle-Verte below the city.  They also could be found at Caraquet, French Village, Grand-Digue, Memramcook, Petit-Rocher, St.-Basile-de-Madawaska, and Sunbury in present-day New Brunswick, and in Nova Scotia at Halifax and Arichat on Île Madame, off the southern coast of Cape Breton Island.  One family even returned to the Rivière St.-Jean valley. 

Typical of most, if not all, Acadian families, these Acadiennes of Canada lost touch with their Cadien cousins hundreds of miles away, and until the Acadian reunions of the mid-twentieth century, may even have forgotten the others existed.  

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Meanwhile, the Godins who ended up in France endured life in the mother country as best they could.  Joseph dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour, second son of Gabriel Godin dit Châtillon and husband of Marie-Anne Bergeron, ended up at Cherbourg in 1759, where he died at age 81 in December 1776.  François, son of Jean Godin and Marguerite Lapointe, born in Québec in c1740, ended up in England during the French and Indian War, perhaps as a Canadian prisoner of war, and was repatriated to St.-Malo, France, in the spring of 1763.  He married Marie, daughter of Frenchman Julien Deslandes of Mesnil-Ozanne, diocese of Avranches, and widow of Pierre Collar, at St.-Servan, near St.-Malo, in November 1764.   None of the witnesses to their marriage were Acadian.  François and his wife were still at St.-Servan in 1770.  Another François Godin, parentage, birth place and birth year undetermined, married Marie Souquet, probably a Frenchwoman, in c1768, probably at St.-Suliac, near St.-Malo.  Their daughter Marie-Françoise was baptized at St.-Suliac in March 1769.  Neither of her godparents was Acadian. 

Some of the Godins in France spelled their surname Gaudin.  Jeanne Gaudin, widow of Jean Le Brun, married Frenchman day laborer Élie, son of Michel Blanchet of Charente, at Notre-Dame, Rochefort, in September 1763.  Marguerite Gaudin married Olivier Michel, probably not an Acadian, at St.-Servan in c1773.  Four of their children were baptized at St.-Servan between 1774 and 1780.  Only one of their godparents was Acadian.  Louise Gaudin, parentage and birth place unrecorded, died at age 62 at La Rochelle in December 1780. 

When, in the early 1780s, the Spanish government offered the Acadians in France the chance for a new life in faraway Louisiana, none of the Godin/Gaudins chose to take it.  At least none of them appear on the passenger lists of the Seven Ships of 1785.   André, son of Étienne Bernard, probably a Frenchman, and Marguerite Gaudin of St.-Nicolas Parish, Nantes, married at New Orleans in August 1792.  The priest who recorded André's marriage did not say if his parents were in the city with him.  Still, one wonders if Marguerite was an Acadian. 

Pierre, son of Joseph Gaudin and Marie Dupuy, probably Acadians, had been born at Bordeaux in September 1770.  He married Élisabeth Foucaud, probably a Frenchwoman, place and date unrecorded.  They had at least three children.  In February 1815, during the final days of the First French Empire, Pierre remarried to Anne, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Giffard of Île Miquelon, in a civil ceremony in Bordeaux.  

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The Godins held as prisoners of war in Nova Scotia had a serious dilemma on their hands when the French and Indian War ended.  The Treaty of Paris of February 1763 stipulated in its Article 14 that persons dispersed by the war had 18 months to return to their respective territories.  In the case of the Acadians, however, this meant that they could return only to French soil.  Rivière St.-Jean was no longer French territory and had not been since the British attacks of 1758-59.  British authorities refused to allow any of the Acadian prisoners in the region to return to their former lands as proprietors.  If Acadians chose to remain in Nova Scotia, they could live only in the interior of the peninsula in small family groups and work for low wages on former Acadian lands now owned by New Englander "planters."  If they stayed, they must also take the hated oath of allegiance to the new British king, George III, without reservation.  They would also have to take the hated oath if they joined their cousins in the St. Lawrence valley.  After all that they had suffered on the question of the oath, no self-respecting Acadian would consent to take it if it could be avoided.  Some Halifax exiles chose to relocate to Miquelon, a French island off the southern coast of Newfoundland.  Others considered going to French St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, where Acadian exiles in the British colonies already had gone, or to the Illinois country, the west bank of which still belonged to France, or to French Louisiana, which was the only route possible to the Illinois country for Acadian exiles.  Whatever their choice, they would not remain in old Acadia.  So the Godins at Halifax gathered up what money they could and prepared to leave their homeland.  

LOUISIANA:  WESTERN SETTLEMENTS

Godins settled early in Acadia, and they were among the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them, a male and two females, all cousins, reached New Orleans in February 1765 with the Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil party from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti.  They followed the Broussards across the Atchafalaya Basin to the Attakapas District, where they helped create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche:

Marie-Charlotte, age unrecorded, daughter of Gabriel Godin dit Châtillon, came to Louisiana with husband Jean Dugas, age 53, and six children, ages 25 to 6.  

Anselme-Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine, age unrecorded, came to Louisiana without a wife or children.  

Marie-Madeleine, age 27, daughter of René dit Jean-René Godin dit Valcour, came to Louisiana with husband Ambroise Martin dit Barnabé, age 31, and a daughter, age 4.  Marie-Madeleine was pregnant when she left Halifax in late 1764.  Daughter Élisabeth Martin dit Barnabé was born either aboard one of the ships her family took to New Orleans or soon after they reached the colony.  

Tragedy soon struck members of the family.  In mid-July, only a few weeks after she had reached the Teche valley, Marie-Charlotte Godin was one of the first to die in a mysterious epidemic that killed dozens of her fellow Teche Valley Acadians that summer and fall.  In early September, not quite six months after he settled at Attakapas, Anselme-Joseph Godin suffered the same fate. 

 Marie-Madeleine Godin enjoyed a happier fate.  She survived the epidemic and, with her husband and daughters, escaped to Cabanocé on the river that fall.  Spanish authorities were still counting them at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques in March 1779. 

Acadian Godins did not return to the western prairies.  

LOUISIANA:  RIVER SETTLEMENTS

Most of the Acadian Godins who reached Louisiana also came from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765, but they did not follow the Broussards to the Teche valley.  These Godins probably were members of an extended family led by Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit D'Amboise of Rivière St.-Jean, brother-in-law of one of the Godin family heads.  Others may have come with Surgeon Philippe St.-Julien de Lachaussée, widower of Françoise Godin dit Lincour.  They settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river above New Orleans where 20 Acadians from Georgia had settled the year before:

Bonaventure dit Bellefontaine, age 50, son of Gabriel Godin dit Châtillon, came with second wife Marguerite Bergeron dit D'Amboise, age 42, and four children--Théotiste, age 16, Marie, age 14, Bonaventure, fils, age 12, and Michel, age 9.  They had no more children in Louisiana.  Théotiste married Gilles, son of fellow Acadian Joseph LeBlanc, at St.-Jacques in February 1781 and died two years later, age 34, probably from the rigors of childbirth.  Marie married late, to first cousin Mathurin, son of Jean-Baptiste Bergeron dit D'Ambroise, probably at St.-Jacques in the 1780s.  Bonaventure, père's two sons created families of their own at St.-Jacques.  

Marie-Anne, called Anne, Bergeron, age 36, widow of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour, came with four Godin children--Marie-Anne, age 14, Victor, age 13, Pierre-Paul, called Paul, age 9, and Marie-Louise or -Françoise, age 6.  Daughter Marie-Anne married three times, first to Antoine, son of French Creole Jacques Dupré dit Terrebonne, at nearby Ascension in 1770, then to Jean, son of French Creole Pierre Villeneuve of Gasony, France, at New Orleans in February 1783, and finally to Joseph, son of fellow Acadian Amand Melançon, at St.-Jacques in February 1790.  She died at Ascension in August 1791; she was only 39 years old.  Victor may not have married.  Pierre-Paul created a family of his own and settled at New Orleans.  Marie-Louise, called Marie-Francoise by the priest who recorded her burial, died in New Orleans in January 1773 in her late teens.  

Barthélémy Godin dit Bellefontaine, age 30, came with his wife Marie-Claire Martin, age 31.  Their children were born at St.-Jacques.  

Barthélémy's younger brothers Jacques dit Bellefontaine, age 25, and Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine, age 19, came to Louisiana without wives or children.  Jacques may not have married, but Jean-Baptiste married twice.  

Joseph dit Lincour, age 25, son of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour, came with younger brother, Charles dit Lincour, age 15.  They brought no wives or children with them but married at St.-Jacques.  

Théotiste Thibodeau, age 25, widow of Bonaventure Godin, came with daughter Marie-Anne-Barbe Godin, age 4.  Théotiste remarried to fellow Acadian Firmin Landry, a widower, probably at St.-Jacques in the late 1760s.  They moved to the Atakapas District, west of the Atchafalaya Basin, where Marie-Anne-Barbe married twice, first to René, son of fellow Acadian Firmin Broussard & widower of Madeleine Landry, in January 1779, then to Noble, son of Irish-American John Wilkins, in October 1800.  Marie-Anne-Barbe died at Atakapas in May 1801; she was only 40 years old.  

Marie-Josèphe dit Lincour, age 21, sister of Charles and Joseph dit Lincour, came with husband Pierre Arceneau, age 30, and two sons, age 3 and 1.  She remarried to Basile, son of fellow Acadian Joseph Prejean of Chepoudy, probably at Cabanocé in c1768 and followed him to the Atakapas District, where she died in St. Martin Parish in September 1815, in her early 70s.  

Jean dit Bellefontaine, age 18, son of René dit Jean-René Godin dit Valcour, came to Louisiana without a wife or children and probably never married.  

Most of the Acadian Godin/Gaudins who created families in South Louisiana settled on the Acadian Coast, which included St.-Jacques and Ascension.  Two of them settled at New Orleans.  One of them moved all the way down into the Terrebonne country by the 1820s: 

Descendants of Barthélémy GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine (c1735-1771)

Barthélémy dit Bellefontaine, elder son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Jacques and Jean-Baptiste, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1735, married Marie-Claire, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Martin dit Barnabé of Port-Royal, in c1760 and came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with her and his brothers in 1765.  He and Marie-Claire settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where their children were born.  Barthélémy died at St.-Jacques in July 1771; he was only 36 years old.  His line did not survive in the Bayou State. 

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Older son Louis, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1767, married Marie-Anne, called Anne, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Louviere of Rivière St.-Jean, at St.-Jacques in March 1791.  Their daughters married into the Blouin, Grabert, and Hébert families.  They may have had no sons, so, except for its blood, this line of the family did not continue.  

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Younger son Barthélémy, fils, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1769, likely died young. 

Jacques GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine (c1740-)

Jacques dit Bellefontaine, son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Barthélemy and Jean-Baptiste, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1740, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with his brothers in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He may not have married.  

Descendants of Jean-Baptiste GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine (c1746-1811?)

Jean-Baptiste dit Bellefontaine, youngest son of Joseph Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Beauséjour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Barthélemy and Jacques, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1746, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with his brothers in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexander Melançon, in c1768.  Their daughters married into the Charpiot and LeBlanc families.  Jean-Baptiste remarried to Élisabeth or Isabelle Fontenot, widow of David Marx, at St.-Jacques in July 1778.  One of their daughters was baptized at New Orleans in March 1787, so the family may have been living there in the late 1780s.  Jean-Baptiste may have died in St. James Parish in April 1811; the priests who recorded his burial in two separate Convent church records noted that he was either 40 or 80 years old when he died, but he would have been 65.  

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Oldest son Jean-Baptiste, fils, by his first wife, born probably at St.-Jacques in the early 1770s, married Marie-Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Foret, at St.-Jacques in May 1791.  Their son Jean Raphael, called Raphael, was born at St.-Jacques in November 1797, Gabriel in February 1800, Eugène in January 1802, and Simon in September 1806.  Their daughters married into the Bergeron, D'Eperon, Dessarper, and Gautreaux families.  

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Raphaël married Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1826.  Their son Désire was born in St. James Parish in c1829 but died at age 2 in October 1831, Joseph Elphége was born in May 1832 but died at age 2 in February 1835, Simon le jeune was born in December 1837, Constant in December 1842 but died at age 2 in December 1844, and Joseph Eugène was born in January 1845 but died at age 9 months the following October.  Their daughters married into the Breaux, Part, and Rouillet families.  In September1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 8 slaves--4 males and 4 females, all black, ranging in age from 70 to 5--on Raphael Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Raphael died in St. James Parish in September 1855; he was 58 years old.  In June 1860, the census taker in St. James Parish counted 4 slaves--1 male and 3 females, ranging in age from 40 to 9--on the Widow Raphael Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 4.  

Simon le jeune married Hélène Justina, called Justina, daughter of fellow Acadian François Bourgeois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in November 1855.  Their son Simon, fils was born in St. James Parish in October 1858 but died at age 3 in August 1861, and Joseph Adam was born in February 1864 but died at age 6 months the following August.  During the War Between the States, Simon served as a sergeant in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in St. James Parish that fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana.  

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Simon died in St. James Parish in March 1821.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Simon was 40 years old when he died, but, unless it was a different Simon Gaudin, he was only 15.  

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Eugène died in St. James Parish in October 1835.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Eugene was 30 years old when he died, but he was 33 and probably never married.  

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Gabriel married Azelie, daughter of Eugène Senette and widow of Jean Berez, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in November 1836.  Their daughter married into the Carraine family.  ...

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Théotique, a twin, by his first wife, baptized at St.-Jacques in July 1774, age unrecorded, probably did not survive childhood.  

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Youngest son Lucas, called Luc, by his second wife, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1784, married Henriette, daughter of fellow Acadian Marin Landry, at St.-Jacques in April 1802.  Their son Paul Vasseur, called Vasseur, was born in St. James Parish in November 1809, Amédée in October 1811, and Jean Baptiste in February 1823.  Their daughters married into the Blanchard, Blouin, Gourdain, LeBlanc (French Canadian, not Acadian), and Melançon families.  Luc died in St. James Parish in March 1830; he was only 46 years old.  

Paul Vasseur married Rosalie Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Richard, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in April 1831.  Their son Paul Vasseur, fils was born in St. James Parish in July 1835.  Paul Vasseur, père died in St. James Parish in February 1837; he was only 26 years old.  

Descendants of Joseph GODIN/GAUDIN dit Lincour (c1740-c1771)

Joseph, older son of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg and brother of Charles dit Lincour, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1740, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue with his brother in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married fellow Acadian Marie Forest in April 1766.  They had no children.  Joseph remarried to Geneviève, daughter of fellow Acadian Alexandre Landry, probably at Cabanocé in c1768.  Joseph died at St.-Jacques or nearby Ascension in c1771; he was only 31 years old.  He and Geneviève had only one son, but that son had many sons of his own who perpetuated this line of the family.  No branch of the Godin/Gaudin family, in fact, was so prolific.  Many of them married cousins.  

Édouard dit Lincour, born probably at St.-Jacques in c1768, because of the early death of his father was raised by his uncle Charles dit Lincour, whose only son died young.  Edouard married Marie-Madeleine, sometimes called Madeleine, daughter of fellow Acadian Simon Landry and widow of Baptiste Landry, at Ascension, on the river above St.-Jacques, in June 1796.  Their son Alexis Séraphin, called Séraphin, erroneously called Geneviève by the priest who recorded his baptism, was born at Ascension in July 1797, Francois de Sales in January 1801, Casimir in March 1803, Valery Didier in May 1807, and Lufroi Paulin, called Paulin, in June 1812.  Their daughters married into the Henry, Lavergne, and Richard families.  When Édouard's uncle Charles moved to Terrebonne Parish in the 1820s, Édouard and his family remained in Ascension Parish.  Édouard dit Lincour died in Ascension Parish in March 1840; he was 72 years old.  

Séraphin married Marie Clémence or Clementine, daughter of fellow Acadian Sylvain LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1817.  Their son Cyril was born in Ascension Parish in March 1818, Alexis in November 1820, Sylvanie in July 1825, Pierre Octave in June 1827 but died at age 5 months the following November, Joseph Émile was born in September 1830 but died at age 1 in October 1831, Édouard Adrien was born in October 1832, and Augustin in May 1837.  Their daughters married into the Garcia and LeBlanc families.  Séraphin died in Ascension Parish in August 1852; he was 55 years old.  

Cyril married Marie Amelina, called Amelina, yet another daughter of Amand Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1837.  Their son Richard Osémé was baptized at the Donaldsonville church, age 4 months, in May 1838 but died at age 6 in August 1844, Eusèbe Théodule, called Théodule, was born in August 1839, Louis Numa, called Numa, in August 1841, Cyril, fils in October 1842, Joseph Gustave in September 1844 but died at age 9 months in June 1845, a newborn infant, perhaps a son, name unrecorded, died in October 1845, and Léon or Léonce was born in January 1847 but died the following April.  Cyril died in Ascension Parish in October 1847; he was only 29 years old.  

Théodule married Marie Aurela, daughter of fellow Acadian Augustin Lanoux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1860.  

Numa married Adele, daughter of Firmin Desnoyer, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in October 1860; Adele's mother was a LeBlanc.  Their son Louis Numa, fils was born in Ascension Parish in January 1861, and Félix Amand in May 1864.  During the War Between the States, Numa served as a sergeant in Company E of the 29th Regiment Louisiana Infantry, a front-line unit raised in Ascension Parish that fought at Vicksburg, Mississippi.  He was wounded during the final days of the Siege of Vicksburg, spent time in a federal hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. government in late July 1863.  In the eyes of his fellow Confederates, he was now a traitor. 

Édouard Adrien died in Ascension Parish in July 1852.  He was only 20 years old and did not marry.  

Augustin died in Ascension Parish in September 1861.  He was only 24 years old and probably never married.  

François de Sales married cousin Marie Delphine, called Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Simon Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1822; they had to secure a dispensation for second degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son François, fils died in Ascension Parish in April 1823 a day after his birth, Onésime Wilfred was born in April 1827 but died at age 2 in February 1829, Joseph Lucien was born January 1831, Jean Casimir in March 1836, Ambroise in April 1838, Hilaire in January 1842, and Simon Valentin in February 1845.  They also had a son named Tiburse.  Their daughter married into the Guidry family.  

Tiburse married Cléonise, daughter of fellow Acadian Evariste LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1860.  Their son Tiburse, fils was born in Ascension Parish in April 1861, Joseph Lucien in June 1862, and Evariste in October 1865.  During the War Between the States, Tiburse served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate States Cavalry, which fought gallantly Mississippi and Alabama.  

Casimir married Françoise Azélie, called Azélie, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in May 1827.  Their daughters married into the Bourgeois and Rizan families.  Casimir died in Ascension Parish in July 1833; he was only 30 years old.  He and his wife had no sons, so, except for its blood, his line of the family died with him.  

Valéry Didier married cousin Marie Delphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Landry, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1829; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son, name unrecorded, died in Ascension Parish in December 1829 "several months" after his birth, and Vincent Albert, called Albert, born in January 1831, died the following October.  Valery died in Ascension Parish in June 1833; he was only 26 years old.   His line of the family died with him.  

Paulin married Marie Célesie, called Célesie, another daughter of Amand Gautreaux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1834.  Their son Cyril Paulin was born in Ascension Parish in September 1838, Francois Vileor, called Vileor, in July 1840, Louis in August 1842, Antoine Léonard, called Léonard, in January 1848 but died at age 4 in July 1852, Étienne Omer, called Omer, was born in December 1850 but died at age 13 in April 1863, and José Guetin René, called René, was born in October 1852 but died at age 10 in July 1862.  Their daughters married into the Bertrand (French Creole or Foreign French, not Acadian) and Rizan families.  

Cyril Paulin married Rosella or Rosellain, daughter of fellow Acadian Lessin LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1859.  Their son Joseph Albert was born near St. Gabriel, Iberville Parish, in February 1867.  

Louis married Josephine, daughter of Spanish Creole Antoine Gomez, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1864.  Their son Joseph Ernest was born near Gonzales, Ascension Parish, in August 1866.  

During the War Between the States, Vileor served in Company A of the 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, a front-line unit raised in Iberville Parish that fought in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  Vileor married cousin Eugènie, daughter of fellow Acadian Valentin Gautreaux, at the Gonzales church, Ascension Parish, in December 1865; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Vileor died at Allemania Plantation, Iberville Parish, in April 1920; he was 79 years old.  

Jean GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine (c1747)

Jean dit Bellefontaine, son of René dit Jean-René Godin dit Valcour and his second wife Francoise Bergeron dit D'Ambroise, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1747, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 and settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He may not have married.  

Descendants of Bonaventure GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine, fils (c1753-1818)

Bonaventure, fils, older son of Bonaventure Godin dit Bellefontaine, père and his second wife Marguerite Bergeron dit D'Amboise and brother of Michel, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1753, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his parents and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  He married Marie, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Broussard of St. Martin Parish, probably in the mid-1780s.  One of their daughters was baptized at New Orleans in February 1802, so the family was living in the city then.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Bourgeois, Dugas, and LeBlanc families.  Bonventure died in St. James Parish in October 1818; the Convent priest who recorded his burial said that Bonaventure was 70 years old when he died, but he was "only" 65.

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Oldest son Bonaventure III, born at St.-Jacques in January 1787, married Renée, daughter of fellow Acadian Pierre Paul Arceneaux, at St.-Jacques in August 1806.  A son, name unrecorded, died in St. James Parish at age 6 months in April 1809, and Joachim, also called Drosin, was born in St. James Parish in December 1812.  Bonaventure III died in St. James Parish in August 1814; he was only 27 years old.  

Joachim married French Creole Melanie Gourdain probably in St. James Parish in the late 1820s, and remarried to Célestine, daughter of French Creole Charleville Blouin, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in June 1834; Célestine's mother was a Part.  Their son Charles was born near Convent in November 1839.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 10 slaves--4 males and 6 females, all black, ranging in age from 36 to 2--on Joachim Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 7 slaves--2 males and 5 females, 1 black and 6 mulattoes, ranging in age from 40 to 3, some of them fugitives, living in 3 houses--on Célestine Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2; this was probably Joachim's widow, Célestine Blouin.  

Charles married German Creole Alphonsine Oubre probably in St. James Parish in the early 1860s.  

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Rosemond, born at St.-Jacques in November 1788, died at age 22 in January 1811.  He never married.  

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Michel-Bernard, born at St.-Jacques in April 1794, married Scholastique, sometimes called Colastie, daughter of fellow Acadian Charles Hébert, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in September 1816.  Their son Joseph Michel was born in St. James Parish in June 1817, Jean Baptiste Félix, called Félix, in May 1823 but died at age 2 in July 1825, Eugène was born in November 1824, Victor in March 1828, Joseph Flagille, called Flagille, in January 1831, and Michel Léon, called Léon, in July 1840.  Their daughters married into the Arceneaux, Babin, Lafor, Lanoux, Legendre, Louviere, Melançon, and Rouilett families.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 3 slaves--all males and all black, ages 40, 35, and 25--on Michel Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  Michel Bernard died in St. James Parish in August 1867; he was 73 years old.  

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Eugène married Adele Estival, daughter of fellow Acadian Jean Estival Bourgeois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in April 1845.  Their son Michel Alfred was born in Ascension Parish in July 1852, Fulgence in January 1859, and Arthur in April 1863.  Their daughter married into the Melançon family.  

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Flagille married fellow Acadian Ernestine Boudreaux at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in April 1856.  

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During the War Between the States, Léon served in Company D of the 14th Regiment Confederate States Cavalry, which fought gallantly Mississippi and Alabama.  Léon married Osile, daughter of fellow Acadian Marcelin Boudreaux, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in February 1865.  Their son Hilaire Ludger was born in St. James Parish in January 1866.  Flagille remarried to Elmire, daughter of fellow Acadian Trasimond Breaux, at the Convent church in December 1866; they had to secure a dispensation for second and third degrees of consanguinity in order to marry; Elmire's mother was Phelonise Gaudin.  Their son Michel Flagille was born in St. James Parish in November 1867.  

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Youngest son Valentin, born at St.-Jacques in c1797 and baptized at the St.-Jacques church, age 9, in April 1806, married Anne Séraphine, called Séraphine, daughter of fellow Acadian Grégoire Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in December 1816.  Their son Valentin Godefroi, called Godefroi, was born near Convent, St. James Parish, in March 1826, Charles Émile in March 1828, Joseph Florian, called Florian, in April 1832 but died at age 3 in March 1835, and Georges Aristide was baptized at the Convent church, St. James Parish, age 10 months, in January 1837.  Their daughters married into the Caillouet, Gaudet, Guidry, Oubre, and Usé families.  In September1850, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 16 slaves--8 male and 8 females, all black, ranging in age from 52 to 6--on Valentin Gaudin's farm in the parish's eastern district.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 17 slaves--9 males and 8 females, 7 blacks and 10 mulattoes, ranging in age from 60 to 2, in 4 houses--on Valentin Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2.  Valentin died in St. James Parish in November 1863; he was 67 years old.  

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Godefroi married Josephine, daughter of fellow Acadian Célestin Bourgeois, at the Convent church, St. James Parish, in October 1847, and remarried to Victorine, daughter of French Creole Joseph Caillouet and widow of V. Falgout, at the Convent church in February 1851.  Their son Lucien Valentin was born in St. James Parish in January 1860.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in St. James Parish counted 6 slaves--5 males and 1 female, all mulattoes, living in 2 houses--on Godfroy Gaudin's farm in the parish's Left Bank District 2.  

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Georges Aristide married Rosalie Francoise Courbvest de Laneauville probably in St. James Parish in the late 1850s.  

Descendants of Michel GODIN/GAUDIN dit Bellefontaine (c1756-1798)

Michel, younger son of Bonaventure Godin dit Bellefontaine, père and his second wife Marguerite Bergeron dit D'Amboise and brother of Bonventure, fils, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1753, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his parents and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Francoise, daughter of French Creole Louis Barbe, at St.-Jacques in October 1787.  In the 1790s, the family moved to New Orleans, where Michel died in October 1798; the priest who recorded his burial called him Pedro, or Pierre, a native of Acadia and resident of the Acadian Coast, which included St.-Jacques; the priest also said that "Pedro" was 40 years old when he died, but he was 42.  One of Michel's daughters was baptized at New Orleans at age 15 months in January 1799, and another daughter, age 12, was buried there in September of that year, so his widow probably remained in the city.  Their daughters married into the Badie and Dugas families.  Their sons settled in Ascension Parish and became major planters along the river.  

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Older son Jean-Baptiste, born at St.-Jacques in July 1790, married Rosalie Athanaise, daughter of fellow Acadian Athanase Dugas, at the Donaldson church, Ascension Parish, just upriver from St. James, in October 1809.  Their son Jean Baptiste, fils was born in Ascension Parish in August 1810, Michel Adélard in February 1818, Jérôme Sylvère or Silvany, in August 1824, Joseph or Jean Michel Léon, sometimes called Michel Léon or simply Léon, in August 1830, and Laurent Édouard, also called Édouard E., in August 1833.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Bujole, Denoux, Hébert, and Landry families.  In September 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 51 slaves--37 males and 14 females, ranging in age from to 70 to 4--on one of Mrs. J. B. Gaudin's plantations, and 25 more slaves--13 males and 12 females, ranging in age from 60 to infancy--on a second plantation of hers in the parish, so Jean Baptiste, père had died by then.  

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Jean Baptiste, fils died in Ascension Parish in September 1828.  He was only 18 years old and did not marry.  

1b

Jérôme Silvany married cousin Marguerite Emma Lisa or Lise Marguerite Emma, sometimes called Elise, daughter of fellow Acadian Joseph Nicolas Dugas, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1846; they had to secure a dispensation for third degree of consanguinity in order to marry.  Their son Joseph Collin was born in Ascension Parish in April 1854.  Their daughter married an Hébert cousin.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 7 slaves--3 males and 4 females, all black, ranging in age from 40 to 4--on Silvani Gaudin's farm in the parish's First Ward.  

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Léon married cousin Amelina, daughter of Jean Denoux, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1852; they had to secure a dispensation for fourth degree of consanguinity in order to marry; Amelina's mother was a Babin.  Their son Antoine Michel, called Michel, was born in Ascension Parish in June 1856 but died at age 9 in September 1866, and Bernard was born in August 1858.  In June 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 3 slaves--a 21-year-old female and 2 males, age 2 and 5, all black, living in 1 house--on Léon Gaudin's farm in the parish's First Ward.  

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Laurent Edward married Anaïs, daughter of fellow Acadian Treville Melançon, at the St. Gabriel church, Iberville Parish, in November 1856.  Their son Joseph Édoude was born in Ascension Parish in September 1857, Thomas in December 1858 but died at age 10 months in October 1859, Ovide Éloi was born in August 1861, Lorence Oscar, called Oscar, in January 1863 but died at age 1 in January 1864, Jean Baptiste was born in July 1864, and Louis Christian in March 1867. 

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Younger son Édouard, born at St.-Jacques in May 1792, married Marie Lise, called Lise, 17-year-old daughter of fellow Acadian Michel Gaudet, at the St. James church, St. James Parish, in January 1820.  Their son Michel was born in Ascension Parish in January 1823, and Jean Baptiste Elphége, called Elphége, in January 1825.  They also had a son named Edouard, fils.  Their daughters married into the Dugas, Ilsley, and Mollere families.  Édouard, père remarried to Arthémise, daughter of fellow Acadian Paul Hébert and widow of Pierre Lalande, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in February 1837.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 54 slaves--25 males and 29 females, ranging in age from 70 to infancy--on Edouard Gaudin, Sr.'s plantation  next to Elphage Gaudin.  In 1860, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 88 slaves--51 males and 37 females, all black, ranging in age from 50 to 7, living in 24 houses--on Edward Gaudin's plantation in the parish's Fourth Ward.  

Édouard, fils married Adele, daughter of French Creole Baptiste Mollere, at the Donaldsonville church, Ascension Parish, in January 1844; Adele's brother was the husband of one of Edouard, fils's sisters.  In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 8 slaves--3 males and 5 females, ranging in age from 40 to 2--on E. Gaudan, Jr.'s farm.  Edouard, fils remarried to Cécilia, daughter of fellow Acadian Amand LeBlanc, at the Donaldsonville church in July 1856.  

In August 1850, the federal census taker in Ascension Parish counted 3 slaves--all females, ages 50, 30, and 10--on Elphage Gaudin's farm next to Edouard Gaudin, Sr.  Elphege's son Benjamin died in Ascension Parish a day after his birth in June 1867; the Donaldsonville priest who recorded the boy's burial did not record Elphege's wife's name.  

Victor GODIN/GAUDIN (c1753-)

Victor, older son of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Pierre-Paul, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1753, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques.  Victor probably never married.  

Descendants of Pierre-Paul GODIN/GAUDIN (c1757-)

Pierre-Paul, called Paul, younger son of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Victor, born in c1757 during Le Grand Dérangement, came to Louisiana from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 with his widowed mother and siblings and followed them to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married Félicité, daughter of French Creole Jacques Lepine of St.-Charles des Allemands on the German Coast.  They settled at New Orleans. 

Guillaume was born at New Orleans in October 1795.  

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A Godin wife came with her family from Maryland in 1766 and settled among her cousins at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, at least for a while:

Susanne Godin, age 29, came with husband Vincent Landry, age 39, and their infant son, Charles-Caliste Landry.  They had more children in the colony and moved from St.-Jacques to the upper Bayou Lafourche valley by the mid-1790s.

Other GAUDINs on the River

Area church and civil records make it difficult to link several Acadian Coast Gaudins with known Acadian lines there:

Ursin Gaudin died in St. James Parish in November 1832.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Ursin was 30 years old when he died.  The priest did not record Ursin's parents or mention a wife.

Maximilien Gaudin died near Convent in September 1834.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Maximilien was 30 years old when he died.  The priest did record Maximilien's parents' names or mention a wife.

Orter, probably Arthur, Gaudin died in Ascension Parish in January 1844.  The priest who recorded his burial said that Orter was 20 years old when he died.  The priest did record Orter's parents'  names.

Raphaël Gaudin married German Creaole Félicie Oubre probably in St. James Parish in the late 1850s or early 1860s.  Their daughter Marie Justine was born in St. James Parish in May 1862.  

LOUISIANA:  LAFOURCHE VALLEY SETTLEMENTS

A Gaudin family moved from the river to Terrebonne Parish during the early antebellum period but died out early:

Descendants of Charles GODIN/GAUDIN dit LINCOUR (c1751-c1828)

Charles, younger son of Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour and Anastasie Bourg and brother of Joseph, born on Rivière St.-Jean in c1751, came to Louisiana with his brother in 1765 and also settled at Cabanocé/St.-Jacques, where he married fellow Acadian Marie-Josèphe Babin in 1769 or 1770.  One of their daughters was baptized at New Orleans in October 1786, so the family may have been living there in the mid-1780s.  They were living near Ascension, on the river above St.-Jacques, later in the decade.  Their daughters married into the Babin, Dupré, Landry, LeBlanc, and Watkins families.  Charles and Marie-Josèphe left the river in the early 1800s and settled in Terrebonne Parish, where his succession inventory was filed at the Houma courthouse in October 1828.  Charles would have been in his late 70s then.  He and his wife had many daughters but only one son, who died young, so this line of the family, except for its blood, did not survive.  Charles did raise his older brother Joseph's only son, Edouard, after Joseph died in his early 30s; Edouard remained on the river.  The husband of one of Charles's daughter Fideli, Caleb B. Watkins, served as the first sheriff of Terrebonne Parish in the 1820s.  

Paul, born at Ascension in March 1789, died at age 5 1/2 in September 1794.  

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A Gaudin who may have been related to the Godin/Gaudins on the river settled on upper Bayou Lafourche during the late antebellum period: 

François, son of Joseph Gaudin and Antoinette Hissot or Tissol, married Joséphine, daughter of Acadian Auguste Bourg, at the Plattenville church, Assumption Parish, in June 1858.  Their son Augustin Félix was born in Assumption Parish in August 1861, and Jules Joseph near Canal, Assumption Parish, in December 1866.  François remarried to Joséphine, daughter of Acadian Valéry LeBlanc and widow of Joseph Garot, at the Plattenville church in May 1867. 

NON-ACADIAN FAMILIES in LOUISIANA

Non-Acadian Gaudin/Godins lived in South Louisiana, some at New Orleans as early as the 1720s.  One, St.-Jacques Godin, may have been a Canadian cousin of the Gaudin/Godins of the Acadian Coast.

Michel Gaudin, "surnamed La Forge" (Gaudin was a dit), was serving as a captain of marine in the company of D'Artaguette at New Orleans when he died in the city at age 26 in February 1726.  

Louis, son of Pierre Godin, master tailor, and Gilberte Ronau of Valet, Nantes, France, married Jeanne-Élisabeth, daughter of master roofer Mathieu Combe of La Rochelle, France, at New Orleans in November 1728.  

Michel, son of François Godin and Marie Toulouse of St.-François Parish, Montréal, married Madeleine Delorier, widow of Acadian Joseph Comeaux, at St.-Jacques in January 1775.  Michel may have been a distant cousin of the Acadian Godins of St.-Jacques.  His son Michel, fils was baptized at St.-Jacques in May 1779.  His daughters married into the Bourgeois (Acadian) and Cousseau or Cussot families.  

David Gaudin married Anne Buch, place and date unrecorded, but it probably was at Pointe Coupée in the 1780s or 1790s.  Their daughter Marie-Anne was baptized at the Pointe Coupée church in April 1793. ...

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During the antebellum period, French-Creole and Foreign-French Gaudins and Godins lived at New Orleans or close to the city as well as in communities where Acadians settled, especially St. Landry Parish:

The succession record of Pierre Gaudin was filed at the Vermilionville courthouse, Lafayette Parish, in January 1835.  The record did not mention a wife or record his age at the time of his death. 

Ernest Godin married Acadian Marguerite Lejeune, widow of ____ Lebleu, in a civil ceremony in St. Landry Parish in January 1839.  

Joseph Gaudin married Émelie Frugé.  Their daughter Anastasie was born near Grand Coteau, St. Landry Parish, in April 1842. 

Diego, or Jacques, Gaudin married Marie Brown.  Their son Joseph François Arthur was born in Lafourche Interior Parish in June 1845.  

In August 1850, the federal census taker in Orleans Parish counted a single slave--a 48-year-old black female--in Pélagie Goden's household in the 5th Ward of the 1st Municipality.  

In October 1850, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted a single slave--a 35-year-old black female--on Ph. Godin's farm.  

In June1860, the federal census taker in Jefferson Parish counted 2 slaves--both female and both black, age 26 and 2--in Chas. Gaudin's household in Jefferson City.  The same census taker counted 2 more slaves--both male, age 20 and 10, both black--in J. Gaudin's household next door.  

In 1860, the federal census taker in St. Landry Parish counted 95 slaves--60 males and 35 females, 91 blacks and 4 mulattoes, ranging in age from 90 to 1, living in 30 houses--on Edoird Gaudin's plantation.  

CONCLUSION

Descendants of Gabriel dit Châtillon Godin of Rivière St.-Jean were among the earliest Acadians who found refuge in Louisiana.  The first of them arrived in February 1765 from Halifax via St.-Domingue, today's Haiti, with the party led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil.  They followed the Broussards to the Atakapas District, where they hoped to create La Nouvelle-Acadie on the banks of Bayou Teche.  Then tragedy struck.  Two of them died in a mysterious epidemic that devastated the Teche community that summer and fall.  The lone survivor in the family retreated to Cabanocé/St.-Jacques on the river, where more of her kinsmen from Halifax via St.-Domingue had settled that year.  The family did not return to the western prairies but remained on the river in what became St. James and Ascension parishes.  Only one line of the family settled in the upper Bayou Lafourche valley, and it died out early, so the great majority, if not all, of the Acadian Godin/Gaudins remained on the river.  

Non-Acadian Godin/Gaudins came to the colony as early as the 1720s.  One of them, from St.-Francois Parish, Montréal, may have been a Canadian cousin of the Acadian Godins at St.-Jacques; he, too, settled there.  Most of the non-Acadian Godin/Gaudins remained at New Orleans, though a few moved out to the prairies of present-day St. Landry and Lafayette parishes.  These French Creoles, in fact, were the only Godin/Gaudins who settled west of the Atchafalaya Basin.  In the early 1800s, Foreign-French Godins emigrated to Louisiana but probably remained at New Orleans.  

Judging by the number of slaves they owned, some of the Acadian Godin/Gaudins participated fully in the South's antebellum plantation economy.  Two owned enough slaves to qualify as planters, and one came close.  Valentin Gaudin of St. James Parish held 16 slaves in 1850 and 17  in 1860.  Two of his cousins, in fact, qualified as great planters.  In 1850, Jean-Baptiste Gaudin of St. James Parish held 51 slaves on one plantation and 25 on another.  Michel Gaudin owned 54 slaves in St. James Parish in 1850 and 88 a decade later.  But most of their cousins owned few or no slaves on their small holdings in St. James and Ascension parishes.  One of their non-Acadian namesakes on the western prairie, Edoird Gaudin, worked 95 slaves on his plantation in St. Landry Parish on the eve of the War Between the States.  

Over a dozen Gaudins served Louisiana in uniform during the War Between the States, and at least one of them died in Confederate service.  Émile Gaudin of St. James Parish enlisted in Company A of the 18th Regiment Louisiana Infantry as soon as the unit was organized.  Émile was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in April 1862.  He fell into enemy hands on the battlefield, and they sent him to a general hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, where he died the following June. 

The war took a heavy toll on the Gaudins' economic status.  Even before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation went into effect in January 1863, Federal commands controlling the lower Mississippi freed the slaves on every plantation their forces could reach.  This no doubt included the Gaudin holdings in St. James and Ascension parishes.  Union gunboats shelled and burned dozens of plantation and farm houses along the river.  Successive Federal incursions in the Bayou Lafourche valley devastated that region, and Confederate foragers also plagued the area when the Federals were not around.  ...

In Louisiana, the Acadian family's name evolved from Godin to Gaudin.  During the late colonial period, some family members used their ancestors' dit names Bellefontaine and Lincour as their surnames.  The family's name also is spelled Gaudain, Gaudon, Godain, Gode, Godein, Goden, Godon.  Some church records confuse this family with their fellow Acadians, the Gaudets.  

Sources:  1850 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Orleans, St. James, & St. Landry parishes; 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Slave Schedules, Ascension, Jefferson, St. James, & St. Landry parishes; Arsenault, Généalogie, 579, 1632-43, 2494-96; BRDR, vols. 1a(rev.), 2, 3, 4, 5(rev.), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10; Hébert, D., Acadians in Exile, 149; NOAR, vols. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7; Hébert, D., South LA Records, vols. 1, 2, 3; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, vols. 1-A, 1-B, 3, 4; Robichaux, Acadians in St.-Malo, 363, 623-24, 1011; White, DGFA-1, 740-50; White, DGFA-1 English, 153-54, source of quote about Pierre dit Châtillon.  

Settlement Abbreviations 
(present-day parishes that existed during the War Between the States in parenthesis; hyperlinks on the abbreviations take you to brief histories of each settlement):

For a chronology of Acadian Arrivals in Louisiana, 1764-early 1800s, see Appendix.

The hyperlink attached to an individual's name is connected to a list of Acadian immigrants for a particular settlement and provides a different perspective on the refugee's place in family and community. 

NOTES

01.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Barthélemy GODIN dit Bellefontaine.

02.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Bonaventure GODIN dit Bellefontaine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2494; White, DGFA-1, 748.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 163; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 443.

03.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Bonaventure GODIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2494, agrees with the age given in the Cabanocé census of 1766; BRDR, 3:348, his death/burial record.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 163; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 443.

His wife's name & her parents' names are from the birth/baptismal record of daughter Hortense, dated 9 Feb 1802, in NOAR, 7:147 (SLC, B14, 181), which calls him "resident of this city" & his wife "native of this city."  Athanase BROUSSARD & his wife Anne BOURGEOIS came to LA in Feb 1765 with the party from Halifax via St.-Domingue led by his kinsman, Joseph BROUSSARD dit Beausoleil.  Marie BROUSSARD may have been born in New Orleans soon after her parents reached LA.  Or she may be the Marie BROUSSARD born in c1767.  

04.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Charles GODIN dit Lincour, & lists him singly; Arsenault, Généalogie, 1640, the Rivière St.-Jean section, calls him Charles GODIN dit Lincour, says he was born in 1736, that his parents were Jean [GODIN dit] Bellefontaine & Francoise DUGAS, & that he settled in LA: Arsenault, Généalogie, 2495, the LA section, calls him Charles GODIN dit Lincour, says he was born in 1746 but gives no birthplace, says his parents were Jean [GODIN dit] Bellefontaine dit Lincour & Francoise DUGAS, calls his wife Marie-Josèphe BABIN, says they were married in c1772 but gives no place of marriage, says he was occupying lot number 63 on the west side of the Mississippi at St.-Jacques in 1769, & lists his children as Élizabeth, born in 1774, Charles, born in 1775, Marie-Constance, born in 1776, Marguerite-Josèphe, born in 1779, Madeleine, born in 1782, & Francois, born in 1784, but gives no birthplaces; Hébert, D., South LA Records, 1:232 (Houma Ct.Hse.: Succ. #18), his succession inventory, calls him Charles GAUDIN, m. d.Marie Joseph BABIN, but does not give his parents' names.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 252; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 3.  

According to White, DGFA-1, 747-488, Francoise DUGAS's husband's name was René dit Jean-René GODIN dit Valcour, & one of René's older brothers was Jean-Baptiste GODIN, dit Lincour, who married to Anastasie BOURG, not Francoise DUGAS.  

Why wasn't he counted in the Cabanocé census of 1766?

05.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Jacques GODIN dit Bellefontaine, & lists him singly.

06.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Jean GODIN dit Bellefontaine, & lists him singly.  Arsenault, Genealogie, 2495, says he was born in 1751, but the St.-Jacques census of 1777 says otherwise.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 15.

07.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Baptiste GODIN dit Bellefontaine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2495, says he was born in 1746 & that he married in c1768; BRDR, 3:349 (SMI-1, 9; SMI-8, 8), perhaps his death/burial record, calls him Jean Baptiste GAUDIN, age 40 in the first register, age 80 in the second register, & does not give his parents' or his wives' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 168, 177; De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 11.

Arsenault says that he & Madeleine MELANÇON were married in c1768, which is after he reached LA, & the Cabanoce/St.-Jacques censuses of 1769 & 1777 indicate clearly that their children were born in LA, the oldest one in c1769.  If they were born in LA, why are they listed in Wall of Names among the Acadians who emigrated to LA?  For the sake of consistency, they are not included separately on this list.  

08.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Jean-Baptiste GODIN, & lists him with son Jean-Baptiste and daughters Rosalie, Marguerite, and Francoise, whom the St.-Jacques census of 1777 says belonged to Baptiste GODIN dit Bellefontaine, who seems to be another person.  See De Ville, St. James Census, 1777, 11.  For the burial record of a Jean-Baptiste GAUDIN, which unfortunately does not give his parents' names, a wife's name, or his age, see BRDR, 2:311.  I am assuming this is him.  I am also assuming that, since Wall of Names lists both a Baptiste GODIN dit Bellefontaine and a Jean-Baptiste GODIN separately, there were two Jean-Baptiste GAUDIN/GODINs at St.-Jacques in the 1770s.

09.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Joseph GODIN dit Bellefontaine.  His burial record in Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-A:44 (SM Ch.: v.1, p.12; SM Ch.: Slave Funeral Register v.1, #19-B), calls him Anselme-Joseph BELLEFONTAINE & Joseph BELLEFONTAINE in 2 separate entries, but neither entry gives his parents' names, a wife's name, or his age.  

11.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him either Joseph GODIN dit Bellefontaine, & lists him with Marie FOREST as though they were married when they reached LA, or Joseph GODIN dit Lincour, & lists him with wife Geneviève LANDRY & daughter Rosalie.  

This confusion as to who he really was comes from a compelling primary source:  NOAR, 5:143, 245 (SLC, M5, 75), his daughter Rosalie's marriage record, calls her Rosalaia LINCOURT, native of St. James Parish, Cabanhocé, says her parents were Josef LINCOURT, deceased, & Maria LAFFORET, deceased, gives her husband's parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were Andres CHILOC, Pablo GODIN, both of this parish.  

Here is the complication:  Wall of Names, 17, seems to be saying that there were 3 Joseph GODINs at Cabanoce/St.-Jacques in the late 1760s:  Joseph GODIN dit Bellefontaine, who came to LA as a single man; Joseph GODIN dit Bellefontaine, husband of Marie FORET; & Joseph GODIN dit Lincour, husband of Geneviève  LANDRY.  The latter Joseph GODIN was obviously Rosalie's father since she called herself LINCOURT at the time of her wedding, but, according to the editors of Wall of Names, Joseph dit Lincour's wife when he reached LA was Geneviève LANDRY, & they place Rosalie with this couple on the Wall of Names.  So why does Rosalie's marriage record clearly say that her mother was Maria LAFFORET, that is, Marie FORET, & not Geneviève LANDRY?  In Apr 1766, a Joseph GODIN, no dit given, married Marie FORRET at Cabanoce.  See Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 171; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth Century Louisianians, 424.  I assumed that the Joseph GODIN at Cabanocé in Apr 1766 had to be Joseph dit Bellefontaine, who was counted in the Apr 1766 census as Joseph BELLEFONTAINE with his wife Marie FOREST & no children,  See Bourgeois, p. 168.  Since Joseph dit Lincourt did not appear in the 1766 Cabanocé census & was not counted at Cabanocé until 1769 under the name Joseph LINCOURT, I assumed that he did not reach the settlement with his wife Geneviève & daughter Rosalie until Sep 1766 with the Acadians from MD.  See Bourgeois, p. 175.  So what is the deal here?  Did Joseph dit Lincour, despite what Wall of Names says, marry both Marie FORET & Geneviève LANDRY?  GAUDIN/GODIN family historian Elaine Boston thinks so, & Rosalie LINCOURT's marriage record is the compelling piece of primary evidence on which she bases her assertion.  

This would mean that the Joseph BELLEFONTAINE at Cabanocé in Apr 1766 was not Joseph dit Bellefontaine but Joseph dit Lincour.  If there was only 1 Joseph GAUDIN/GODIN at Cabanocé in the late 1760s, not 2 or even 3, then he would have arrived in 1765 in order to marry Marie FORET in Apr 1766; again, remember that the Acadians who came from MD in 1766 did not reach New Orleans until Sep.  This would mean that Rosalie was not in utero when she reached LA because her parents were married there.  Moreover, I have searched the lists of Acadians in MD made by British colonial officials in Jul 1763, looking for a Joseph GAUDIN/GODIN/LINCOUR & found no one with that name, nor have I found a Geneviève LANDRY in MD, which further weakens my assertion that Joseph dit Lincour and his wife Geneviève LANDRY came to Cabanoce from MD in Sep 1766.  See Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 150-58.  The presence of only a single Joseph GODIN at Cabanocé in the late 1760s hangs on the assertion in her marriage record that Rosalie's mother was Marie FORET.  Sacramental records are very closely kept by the Roman Catholic Church & tend to be more reliable than censuses & prisoner lists, so I must conclude that Elaine Boston is correct:  Rosalie GAUDIN/GODIN/LINCOURT 's mother was Marie FORET, the first wife of her father, Joseph GAUDIN/GODIN dit Lincour, that he & Marie reached Cabanocé probably from Halifax via St.-Domingue in 1765 perhaps even in separate expeditions, & that Rosalie was born in LA after her parents' marriage at Cabanocé in Apr 1766, so she should be removed from this listing.  If Joseph & Marie had been married in exile, all that the "wedding" at Cabanocé in Apr 1766 would have been was a civil sanction of the union; it was conducted not by a priest but by one of the co-commandants of the district, either Nicolas VERRET or Louis JUDICE.  Marie FORET most likely died soon after giving birth to Rosalie, or perhaps as a result of the birth.  Joseph would have remarried to Geneviève LANDRY in 1768 or 1769; note that son Edouard was born at Cabanocé or Ascension in the spring of 1770; the censuses at Cabanocé in 1769 & at Ascension in 1770 make it clear that Edouard's mother was Geneviève, not Marie, & that Geneviève died not long after his birth.  See Bourgeois, p. 175; Robichaux, Bayou Lafourche, 1770-98, 3.  Thus, I am compelled to ignore the listings in Wall of Names, 17, with its plethora of Joseph GODINs & conclude that there was only 1 Joseph GODIN at Cabanocé in the late 1760s.

Joseph's purported death date comes from family historian Elaine Boston, who says that Joseph's brother Charles dit Lincour was named as tutor of Joseph's 2 children in 1771.  He certainly had died by Apr 1777, when Rosalie LINCOUR, age 10, & Edouart LINCOUR, age 6, were counted in the Ascension census with their uncle Charles LINCOUR & his family.  See Robichaux, p. 12.  One wonders what could have killed Joseph at such a young age.  How tragic for his 2 children, who lost their mothers when they were infants & their father not long afterwards.

The identity of Joseph dit Lincour's parents also comes from the research of Elaine Boston.  

Despite his age at the time--23--I am assuming that he was among the 4 "children" counted with his widowed mother, Nastazie BOURQUE, at Halifax in Aug 1763.  See Jehn, p. 252. 

12.  Wall of Names, 17, calls her Marie GODIN dit Bellefontaine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2494, her father's profile in the LA section, calls her Marie [GODIN dit Bellefontaine], says she was born in 1751 but gives no birthplace, gives her parents' names, lists her siblings as Théotiste, born in 1749, Bonaventure, born in 1753, & Michel, born in 1756, but gives no birthplaces, & says the family was at St.-Jacques in 1766 & occupying lot number 12 on the west bank of the Mississippi at St.-Jacques in 1769; BRDR, 3:350 (SJA-4, 41), probably her death/burial record, calls her Marie GAUDIN, age about 50 yrs. wid. of Mathurin BERGERON, but does not give her parents' names.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 163; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 443.

The birth year given in Arsenault pretty much agrees with the ages given for her in the Cabanoce censuses of 1766 & 1769, though the second census would give her an estimated birth year of c1752.  The St.-Jacques census of 1777, on the other hand, would have her born in c1755.  So why was her death/burial record so far off?  

For evidence that she was the Marie GAUDIN married to Mathurin BERGERON, her first cousin, see the footnote to his profile.  

13.  Wall of Names, 17, calls her Marie GODIN; BRDR, 2:267, 312-13 (SJA-1, 12), the record of her first marriage, dated simply 1770, calls her Maria-Anne GODIN, calls her husband Antoine-Alexandre DUPRÉ dit TERREBONE, gives her & his parents' names, & says the witnesses to her marriage were A. DUPRÉ [probably his brother André], & Marie GAUDIN, & adds, "(name of groom & parents missing, information furnished from other sources)"; NOAR, 3:143, 296 (SLC, M4, 146), the record of her second marriage, calls her Marie-Anne GODIN, "widow of Antonio DUPRÉ," calls her husband Juan VILLANUEVA, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were "natives of St. John River, Diocese of Québec," his were "natives of Gasony, Diocese of Dos in France," & that the witnesses to her marriage were Andrés SELOC & Pedro Pol GODEIN [her brother]; BRDR, 2:312, 536 (ASC-2, 31), the record of her third marriage, calls her Mariana GODIN, "widow of VILLENEUVE," calls her husband Joseph MELANCON, gives her & his parents' names, says her parents were deceased at the time of the wedding, & that the witnesses to her marriage were Charles GODIN & Joseph BABIN; BRDR, 2:312, her death/burial record.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 445.

Her first husband's brothers moved to the Opelousas District, where they became prominent cattlemen, & to the Lafouche/Terrebonne valley, but Antoine & Marie-Anne remained in the New Orleans area.  His family was Canadian.  See West, Atlas of LA Surnames, 68-69.

14.  Wall of Names, 17, calls her Anne-Barbe GODIN; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2496; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 1-B:316 (SM Ch.: v.4, #231-A), her death/burial record, calls her Marie-Anne GAUDIN, wid. of René BROUSSARD, of Halifax, m.(2) to Noble WILKINS of Ireland, gives her parents' names & says they were of Acadia.  

15.  Wall of Names, 15, calls her Marie-Charlotte GODIN; White, DGFA-1, 748, calls her Marie-Charlotte [GODIN], does not give her birth place or birth date, gives her parents' names, lists her siblings, gives her husband's parents' names, says they married in c1734 but gives no place of marriage, & says she died at St.-Martinville on 17 Jul 1765 & was buried the next day but does not say where, & does not give her age at the time of her death.  

16.  Wall of Names, 9, calls her Marie LINCOUR; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2571; Hébert, D., Southwest LA Records, 2-A:422 (SM Ch.: v.4, #990), her death/burial record, calls her Marie Josèphe GAUDET[sic], "native of Acadie, spouse of Basile PREJEAN," says she died at "age 76 years," details her place of death, but does not give her parents' names.

There was no Marie-Josèphe GAUDET born in Acadia, & Basile PREJEAN's wife was Marie-Josèphe GODIN dit Lincour, so that is her burial record at St. Martinville in Sep 1815.  

17.  Wall of Names, 17, calls her Marie-Louise GODIN; NOAR, 3:140 (SLC, F1, 15), perhaps her death/burial record, calls her Marie-Francoise GAUDAIN, native of Acadia, 15 yr., but does not give her parents' names.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 445.

18.  Wall of Names, 22, calls her Marie-Madeleine GODIN dit Bellefontaine.  

19.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Michel GODIN dit Bellefontaine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2494; BRDR, 2:59, 309 (SJA-2, 4), his marriage record, calls him Miguel GODE but places the record in the GAUDET family section, gives his parents' names & her father's name, says his parents were "of Acadia" & her father "of this parish," & t hat the witnesses to his marriage were Benchamen LEBLANC & Maria CROESET "of this Parish"; NOAR, 6:136 (SLC, F4, 60), his death/burial record, calls him Pedro[sic] GODIN, "native of Acadia, resident of the Acadian Coast [in this province], 40 yrs., spouse of Francisca BARBE, also resident of the Acadian Coast."  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 163; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 443.

The burial record cited above is his & not that of cousin Pierre GODIN because on the same page of NOAR as Michel's burial record is the baptismal record of daughter Melania, dated 22 Jan 1799 (SLC, B14, 78).  Her parents were Miguel GODIN, Acadian, & Francisca BARBET, of St. Charles Parish, & her paternal grandparents were Bonaventura GODIN & Margarita BERGERON, so there is no doubt she was a daughter of Michel.  Melania was 15 mos. old at the time of her baptism, which means she was born in late 1797.  Note the date of "Pedro" GODIN's burial--8 Oct 1798.  The St. Louis Cathedral priest must have gotten Michel's name wrong when he recorded his burial.  

20.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Pierre-Paul GODIN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 445. 

For evidence of his marriage, see the birth/baptismal records of son Guillaume, dated 14 Oct 1795, & daughter Eloise, dated 25 Jul 1798, in NOAR, 6:133 (SLC, B14, 4; SLC, B14, 77).  The priest who recorded the baptism of son Guillaume calls him Pablo, or Paul.  He is also called "native of Acadia" & "native of St. John River in Canada [New Brunswick]."  

22.  Wall of Names, 21, calls her Susanne GODIN; BRDR, 2:449 (ASC-1, 191c), her death/burial record, calls her Susana LANDRY, "age 46 years & spouse of Vicente LANDRY," but does not give her parents' names. 

23.  Wall of Names, 17, calls her Théostiste GODIN dit Bellefontaine; Arsenault, Généalogie, 2494.  See also Bourgeois, Cabanocey, 163; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 443.

24.  Wall of Names, 17, calls him Victor GODIN.  See also Jehn, Acadian Exiles in the Colonies, 251; Voorhies, J., Some Late Eighteenth-Century Louisianians, 445.

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