Jean Baptiste (Gaudin) Godin (abt. 1706 - bef. 1763)

Born about 1706 in Rivière Saint-jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

Ancestors

Husband of Anastasie Bourg — married 1729 in Acadie

Descendants

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Biography

Jean Baptiste Godin was born around 1706 at Rivière Saint-Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France (in present-day New Brunswick). ^[1] His parents were Gabriel Godin and Andrée Angélique Jeanne. ^[2]

He married Anastasie Bourg around 1729 in Acadie. ^[2]

Children: ^[3]

1. Alexandre GODIN ca 1730-/1769
2. Francoise GODIN ca 1732-ca 1755
3. Unknown GODIN ca 1734-
4. Unknown GODIN ca 1736-
5. Joseph GODIN ca 1740-/1777
6. Marie Josephe GODIN ca 1744-1815
7. Charles GODIN ca 1747-/1824

They were on the 1736 census at Rivière Saint-Jean with 3 sons and 1 daughter. ^[3] They were still residing in the same location in 1739 when they were recorded with 4 children and a servant. ^[4]

He died before August 12, 1763 in an unknown location. On that date, his wife Anastasie appeared under the name of Nastazie Bourque, a widow, with her 4 children, on a list of prisoners in Halifax, dated 12 August 1763. ^[5][6] She died after 12 August 1763 but the location isn't known.

The prisoners in Halifax were released after the treaty of 1763. The British authorities permitted Acadians to remain in the Colony of Nova Scotia as long as they took an oath of allegiance. However the majority of the prisoners rejected their offer and left the colony by their own means by leasing vessels since the British refused to pay their passage to other colonies. Many chose to go to French-controlled colonies like Saint-Pierre et Miquelon and Saint-Domingue (Haiti) but quickly left the dire conditions there and travelled north, most of them settling in Louisiana in the spring of 1765. ^[5]

Three of his children settled in Louisiana: Joseph, Marie-Josèphe and Charles.

Sources

1. ↑ The family appeared on the censuses at Rivière Saint-Jean in 1693, 1698 and 1739.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Stephen A. White, Patrice Gallant, and Hector-J Hébert, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999) p. 747

   Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour, married around 1729 Anastasie Bourg (Alexandre & Marguerite Melanson). Died before the census of 12 August 1763

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Geneanet.org. Karen Theriot Reader's Family Tree. Page for Jean-Baptiste Godin de Bellefontaine dit Lincour citing Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes: 1715 à 1780, (Moncton, NB: Centre d'études acadiennes, draft version) GODIN no. 10

   In the "Document officiels": The census of the Riv St-Jean in 1736 showed: Jean BELLEFONTAINE, femme, 3 fils, 1 fille.

4. ↑ 1739 Rivière Saint-Jean Acadian Census microfilm C-2572 of the Library and Archives Canada “Acadie Recensements 1671 – 1752”, Images 274-276.

   Jean Lincour, his wife, 4 children, 1 servant.

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles « Les Acadiens à Halifax et dans l’île Georges, 1755–1764 ». Port Acadie no 22-23 (2012) : 43–76. https://doi.org/10.7202/1014976ar p. 66-67, 74 of article.
6. ↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. List of Acadian Prisoners at Halifax, August 12, 1763, Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home. Transcription, digital images, Roy, J.-Edmond. "12 Août 1763: Liste des françois Accadiens demeurants prisonniers a halifax port d'amérique Septentrionale Sous le gouvernement de Sa majesté Britannique" in Rapport sur les archives de France relatives à l'histoire du Canada. Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1911 accessed at [http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/1987063 BANQ numérique, p, 631, Image 633, accessed May 2022

   Nastazie Bourque, veuve (widow) 4 children