Person:Bonaventure Godin (1)

!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGES-CENSUS-DEATH: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 748; own copy. #(19): Bonaventure (dit BELLEFONTAINE) GODIN, born around 1715, son of Gabriel dit CHATILLON & Andrée-Angélique JEANNE (JASNE). He married 1st before the 1739 census to an unidenfied wife. He married 2nd around 1740 to Marguerite BERGERON dit d'AMBOISE, daughter of Barthélemy & Marguerite DUGAS. On the 1766 census at Cabahannocer, LA as Bellefontaine, age 51 years; on 1769 census as GODIN, age 46 years (sic); on 1777 census as GODIN, age 56 years (sic). He died before 2 May 1786.

!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-RESIDENCES: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, p. 1637 (River St. Jean). Bonaventure GODIN dit BELLEFONTAINE, born 1715, son of Gabriel & Andre'e-Angle'lique JOANNES, married around [2nd] 1740 to Marguerite BERGERON, "doubtless" daughter of Barthele'my & Marguerite DUGAS. He settled in Louisiana.

  On p. 2494 (Louisiana), four children are listed. Bonaventure was at St. James in 1766; in 1769 he occupied lot number 12 on the west [check] bank of the Mississippi. A nephew Jean-Baptiste BERGERON, born 1756, was also in the household.

!CENSUS-LAND: Lillian C. Bourgeois, CABANOCEY, THE HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND FOLKLORE OF ST. JAMES PARISH [LA]; 1750-1950; New Orleans, Pelican Publishing, 1957; p.184; Sutro California State Library,F377 S134 B6. Census taken 1 Jan 1777 of the Parish of St. James at Cabahannocer. Bonnaventure GAUDIN, age 56 [so born 1721], with wife Marguerite BERGERSON [sic] and four grown children.

!MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-RESIDENCES: Janet Jehn, ACADIAN EXILES IN THE COLONIES; 1755-1769; Covington, KY, author, 1977; p. 244, 251 & 255; own copy. Bonnavantier GAUDEN, listed with his wife and seven children on a List of France Acadian prisoners of the British at Halifax dated 12 Aug 1763. A note says that he was at St. James, LA in 1766 with four children.

!PARENTS-BIRTH-RESIDENCES-MARRIAGE-DEATH-PROBATE: "BERGERON Family (Continued)," in LES VOYAGEURS; vol.VI, no. 4 (Dec 1985), German-Acadian Coast Historical & Genealogical Society; p. 205. Bonaventure GODIN dit BELLEFONTAINE, born 1715, married around 1748 to Marguerite BERGERON. He was of the River St. Jean, son of Gabriel GAUDIN & Andree Marie Angelique JASNE (COUHON). He died on 2 May 1786 in St. James [LA]. Succession record #168, p. 133-151, #309 [?].

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 748.
2. ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
   p. 162.

   List of inhabitants on the right [sic] bank of the Mississippi River. They live on 6 arpents of land, with 1 head cattle, 2 hogs, and 1 gun. [Next household is Charles BERGERON, age 38, his wife's brother.]
   Bonaventure BELLEFONTAINE, 51;
   Marguerite BERGERON, his wife, 43;
   Bonaventure, son, 13;
   Michel, son, 10;
   Theotiste, daughter, 17;
   Marie, daughter, 15.