Person:Laurent Godin (1)

!BIRTH-CHRISTENING-NAME-PARENTS-CENSUS-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN-BURIAL: Stephen A. White, DICTIONNAIRE GENEALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES; 1636-1714; Moncton, New Brunswick, Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes, 1999, 2 vols.; p. 741; own copy. #2: He was on the 1666 census at Charlesbourg, age 11 years. He was a miller. He married 1st around 1677 (Tanguay, vol.IV, p.187; Jette, pp.511-512) to Anne GUÉRIN, daughter of Francois & Anne BLANCHARD; thirteen children. He married 2nd (Pointe-Claire) on 26 Jun 1719 to Marie-Anne BRUNET dit LESTANG, daughter of Mathieu & Marie BLANCHARD (widow of Antoine PILON.

!NAME-BIRTH-OCCUPATION-MARRIAGES-CHILDREN: Arsenault, Histoire et Genealogie, pp. 505 & 1632 (Riviere Saint-Jean). Born 1655, name spelled Laurent. A footnote says that he was born at Montral, and had as a godfather Paul de Chomedy, sieur of Maisonneuve, founder and governor of Montreal. His own entry on p. 1633 says he arrived in Acadia around 1676. He was at Pointe Beausejour near Beaubassin with his wife and one child on the census of 1678. He was still there in 1707. In 1714, he is at Saint-Pierre-du-Sud at Montmagny; and in 1718 at Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, where his first wife was buried. In 1719 he is miller "au bout de l'ile de Montreal." He died at the Riviere-des-Praries.

!CENSUS: 1666, Charlesbourg, age 11 years.

!CENSUS: 1678, Clarence J. d'Entremont, "Recensement de Port-Royal," in MEMOIRES DE LA SOCIETE GENEALOGIQUE CANADIENNE-FRANCAISE; vol. 22, no. 4; p. 233; sent by PERSI in Jun 1999. On verso of Folio 19: Laurans GODIN & Anne BLANCHARD [?], with one boy age 1 year. They have 3 arpents of land, no animals listed.

!CENSUS: 1686, Port Royal, Acadia, age 32 years, with wife and 4 children. They have 7 cattle and 7 sheep. No land listed. Laurens & ?

!CENSUS: 1693, Beaubassin, Acadia, age 40 years.

!CENSUS: 1698, age 42 years.

!CENSUS: 1700, age 46 years.

1. ↑ Stephen A. White. Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes. (2 vols., Moncton, New Brunswick: Centre d'Études Acadiennes, 1999)
   p. 741.

   Laurent GODIN dit CHATILLON dit BEAUSÉJOUR, born and baptized (Montréal Register) 10 Aug 1655, son of Pierre & Jeanne ROUSSELIERE.

2. ↑ Programme de recherche en démographie historique.