♂Claude Godin

Claude Godin (about 1600 – 1654) was a carpenter of Châtillon-sur-Seine, in what is now the Côte-d’Or, whose son Pierre crossed to Montreal with the recruits of 1653. He was probably the ninth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his son Pierre Godin (baptized 1630, died before 1686).

Claude and his wife, Marie Bardin, had their children baptized at the church of Saint-Vorles in Châtillon-sur-Seine: two daughters, Jeanne in 1624 and Marie in 1627, and a son, Pierre, probably the boy baptized there in 1630. Pierre followed his father’s trade, and in 1653, as a journeyman carpenter, he signed on to go out to Montreal. When he married there in 1654 he named his parents as Claude Godin and Marie Bardin, “de St-Vol, évêché de Langres”. Claude’s birth is said to have been about 1600, and his death in 1654.

Notes

Sources

Claude’s trade, the couple’s names and the baptisms of their children at Saint-Vorles (Jeanne, also called Perrine, on 25 July 1624; Marie on 25 March 1627; Pierre on 17 May 1630) are from the Fichier Origine, a database of the European origins of the settlers of New France, in its entry for Pierre. Pierre’s naming of his parents is in his marriage contract before the notary Lambert Closse at Montreal, 27 September 1654, as given by Roland-J. Auger in La grande recrue de 1653 (p. 69).

His dates

The years of his birth (about 1600) and death (1654) come from other online family trees and rest on no known record.

The line of descent

The descent from Pierre Godin runs through his son Gabriel Godin and Gabriel’s probable son Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour, whom Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes places in Gabriel’s family; another compiled genealogy’s list of Gabriel’s children does not name him. Pierre’s identification with the boy baptized in 1630 also rests on the Fichier Origine, though his stated ages in Canada point to about 1632. The line to Floyd Amatus Delahorne is therefore probable rather than proved.