Person:Jean Gaudet (1)

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 230; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 18: Nicolle COLLORON [sic], widow of GODET, living as head of household with Jean GODET [her widowed son] and one boy and one girl [his children]. They have 3 arpents of land, with 8 head of cattle.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia (p. 16), age 45 years [sic], living with his 80-year-old mother, who is listed as head of household, and his second? wife Jeanne HENRY, 30, their 2 children, and 3 children of his former marriage. They have 1 gun, 4 arpents worked land, 4 cattle, 4 sheep and 3 pigs.

He is listed (p.17) a 2nd time as age 33 years [born 1653]. His wife is only listed by first name Jeanne, and the 2 children of the first marriage [Enfans du prem'r Lict.] are given exactly the same as on p. 16 before, and the 2 girls of the second marriage are named [not 3 unnamed as on first entry]. Has one died? Now they have 2 guns, still 4 arpents worked land 10 cattle, 17 sheep and 4 pigs. His mother is no longer listed. Dead? [Why the discrepancy, both in age, number of children, and details missing? Was the second entry a correction, and to indicate deaths? If so, what is his true age?]

!CENSUS: 1693, Les Mines, Acadia, age 47 [sic], a widower, living with 3 daughters and a son. They have 15 cattle, 10 sheep, 10 hogs, on 6 arpents, with 1 gun.

!CENSUS: 1698, Port Royal, Acadia. He has remarried to Jeanne LE JEUNE, age 47. No children are listed, but they have 3 cows, 4 sheep, 3 hogs, 1 1/2 arpents, and 1 gun. [Where is his former land?] Jean GODET is 42 years [sic] [5 years younger than wife].

!CENSUS: 1708, La Heve, age 58 years (sic).

1. ↑ Nova Scotia, Canada. Recensements d'Acadie (1671 - 1752)
   pg.4.

   Recensement 1671, Port Royal, Acadie
   "Laboureur - JEHAN GAUDET aagé de quatre vingt et seize ans, sa femme Nicolle Colleson aagée de soixante et quatre ans, Leurs enfans Jehan Gaudet aagé 18 ans, Leur terre en labour trois arpans en deux places, Leurs bestes a cornes six pièces Leurs brebis trois pièces."

2.   Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens. (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, 1965)
   p. 1386.

   (Pisiguit); Born 1643, son of Jean & Nicole COLESON of Port Royal, Jean [II] married 1st around 1671 to Marie COMEAU [Marie Francoise?], daughter of Pierre & Rose BAYOL of Port Royal; two children are listed. He married 2nd around 1681 to Jeanne HENRY (no parents listed); three children are under this marriage.

3.   Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens. (Quebec: Le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique, 1965)
   p. 554, 555.

   Birth year given as 1643 (after parents immigrated to Acadia). Settled at Pisiguit.