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Jean Baptiste Godin, dit Bellefontaine
m. Abt 1726 - Jean Baptiste Godin, dit BellefontaineAbt 1746 - Aft 1785
Facts and Events
| Name |
Jean Baptiste Godin, dit Bellefontaine |
| Alt Name |
Baptiste, GODAIN, GAUDIN, BELLEFONTAINE Juan Bautista |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Abt 1746 |
River St. Jean, , , Acadia |
| Census[2] |
9 Apr 1766 |
Cabahannocer, St. James, Louisiana, United States |
| Marriage |
Abt 1768 |
to Marie Madeleine Melanson |
| Census[3][4] |
14 Sep 1769 |
Cabahannocer, St. James, Louisiana, United States |
| Census[5] |
1 Jan 1777 |
, St. James, LA |
| Census[6] |
1779 |
, St. James, LA |
| Death? |
Aft 19 Feb 1785 |
, , LA |
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-CENSUS: Gregory A. Wood, A GUIDE TO THE ACADIANS IN MARYLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURES; 1755-1899; Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1995; pp. 166-167; own copy.
!MARRIAGES: Diocese of Baton Rouge, CATHOLIC CHURCH RECORDS; 1770-1803; vol. 2, Baton Rouge, LA, Diocese, 1980; p. 311; California State Library Sutro, F377 B3C3 v.2. Jean Baptiste [GAUDIN], widower of Magdalaine MELANZON (parents not given), married on 27 Jul 1778 to Elisabethe FONTENET, widow of David MARX (parents not given). Witnesses: Bonnaventure GODIN; Joseph MELANZON. Recorded at St. James Catholic Church, St. James, LA (SJA-1, 48a).
Is he the Juan GODEN, son of Josef & Margarita BURSUA [sic] who married on 28 Jan 1791 to Margarita POIRIER, daughter of Josef & Tita BURSUA? (SJA-2, 12).
References
- ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
p. 1636 (River St. Jean) & p. 2495 (Louisiana) .
Jean-Baptiste GODIN, born 1746, son of Joseph & Marie-Anne BERGERON, married 1st around 1768 to Madeleine MELANCON (born 1750); eight children.
- ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
p. 168.
Baptiste BELLEFONTAINE, 20, [living alone] on 4 arpents of land, with one gun.
[His older brother Jacques is next door.]
- ↑ Lillian C. Bourgeois. Cabanocey. (New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 1957.)
p. 177.
Household #111: Baptiste GODAIN, 24;
Magdelaine MELANCON, wife, 19.
- ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
p. 2495 (Louisiana).
In 1769 he occupied lot number 111 on the east bank of the Mississippi.
- ↑ Bona Arsenault. Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens. (Montreal: Lemeac, 1978, 6 vols.)
p. 2495 (Louisiana).
In 1777 he had newly become a widower. He married 2nd at St. James, LA in Jun 1778 to Élizabeth FONTENOT.
- ↑ Michael B. Melanson. Melanson~Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family. (Dracut, MA: Lanesville Publishing, 2004)
p. 62.
Baptiste GAUDIN, with nine whites in household, and three slaves.
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