♂Jean-Baptiste Godin

Jean-Baptiste Godin (about 1706 – before 12 August 1763) was an Acadian of the Godin family of the Saint John River, who went by the name Godin dit Lincour. He was probably the sixth great-grandfather of Floyd Amatus Delahorne (1922–2014), through his daughter Marie Josephe Godin (about 1744 – before 23 September 1822).

Life and marriage

He is said to have been born about 1706 on the Saint John River, a son of Gabriel Godin and Andrée Angélique Jeanne. Both his parents were born in Canada, Gabriel at Montreal in 1661 and Andrée at Sainte-Famille on the Île d’Orléans in 1671. Jean-Baptiste Godin and Anastasie Bourg most likely married about 1729; she was a daughter of Alexandre Bourg and Marguerite Melancon of Les Mines. He is said to have died before 12 August 1763, the date of a census of the Acadians.

Their daughter

Their daughter Marie Josephe was born about 1744. By 1766 she was living at St. James on the Mississippi, the wife of Pierre Arceneaux; widowed within three years, she then married Basile Prejean. Her descent from the couple rests on the name Lincour that she carried.

Notes

Sources for his life

His birth about 1706 on the Saint John River, his parents, his marriage to Anastasie Bourg about 1729 and his death before the census of 12 August 1763 come from Stephen A. White’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, p. 747, as quoted on WikiTree, which names him Jean-Baptiste Godin dit Lincour. No baptism, marriage or burial record of his own is known. His parents’ births at Montreal (Notre-Dame) in 1661 and at Sainte-Famille, Île d’Orléans, in 1671 are in the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH), the Université de Montréal’s database of the Québec parish registers.

The link to Marie Josephe Godin

White makes Marie Josephe the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Godin and Anastasie Bourg. By his own note, this is an inference from the name Lincour: the censuses of 1766, 1769 and 1777 write her Marie Licourt, Lincourt and Lincour, and the register of St. James writes her Marie Joseph Bellefontaine in 1777, another name of the Godin family. None of the records of her own life names her parents. Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens gives instead a Jean Godin dit Bellefontaine dit Lincour, born in 1712, married to Françoise Dugas on the Saint John River, and does not list her among his children. The descent through Jean-Baptiste and Anastasie therefore rests on White’s reading and is probable rather than proved.