Pierre (Godin) Godin dit Bellefontaine (abt. 1757 - aft. 1800)

Born about 1757 in Riviere St Jean, Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Died after 1800 after about age 43 in Louisiana

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Biography

Paul (Godin) Godin dit Bellefontaine migrated from Acadie to Louisiana.

Marie Anne Bergeron, veuve Godin is on the Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, Louisiana, Plaque 3 Right. Listed with her are her four children with Alexandre Godin: Marie, Victor, Pierre Paul and Marie Louise.^[1]

Pierre-Paul (called Paul), younger son of Alexandre Godin dit Lincour and Marie-Anne Bergeron and brother of Victor, born in about 1757 ^[2]during Le Grand Dérangement, came to Louisiana from Halifax via Saint 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 Des Allemands in St Charles Parish. They settled at New Orleans.

He is mentioned in the christening record of his daughter, born in New Orleans in January 1792. The baptismal record also names the grandparents.^{[citation needed]}

GAUDE [@GAODE] CONT Maria Luisa (Pablo, native of Acadia, and Felicitas LEPINE, native of New Orleans), b. conditionally Dec. 20, 1792, bn. Jan. 3, 1792, pgp. Alesandro GAUDE and Maria Ana BERGERON, natives of Acadia, mgp. Santiago LEPINE, native of New Orleans, and Margarita BARQUIER, native of Martinique, s. Antonio LEPINE and Maria Luisa [o], native of New Orleans (SLC, B11, 230)^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ The Wall of Names at the Acadian Memorial, compiled by Jane G. Bulliard and the Wall of Names Committee (Opelousas, LA: Bodemuller, 2015) p. 17
2. ↑ Karen Theriot Reader Pierre Paul citing Bona Arsenault, HISTOIRE ET GENEALOGIE DES ACADIENS; 1625-1810; Ottawa, Editions Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.; p. 1636 (River St. Jean); own copy.
3. ↑ E. Woods, Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, vol 5 (Archdiocese of New Orleans,1989)

See also:

• http://www.acadiansingray.com/Appendices-ATLAL-GAUDIN-GODIN.htm, accessed 03/20/2021
• E. Woods, Archdiocese of New Orleans Sacramental Records, vol 5 (Archdiocese of New Orleans,1989)