Marriage Charles Godin - Marie Boucher 1656

Marie Boucher & Charles Godin

Marie Boucher (1644 – 1730)

Name variant: Made

Parents:

She was the daughter of Marin Boucher and Perrine Mallet.[1]

Birth:

Marie Boucher was born on April 11, 1644, in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Canada, and was baptized on April 11, 1644 (registered belatedly at Notre-Dame de Québec church in 1647). Her godfather was Massé Gravel, and her godmother was Marie Guyon, wife of François Bellanger.[2][3]

Marriage:

On October 1, 1656, Charles Godin and Marie Boucher signed a marriage contract before notary Guillaume Audouart.[4][5] On November 6, 1656, at Notre-Dame de Québec, Marie Boucher, aged 12, married Charles Godin, aged 24, son of Jacques Gaudin and Marguerite Nieule/Niard. They would have 17 children.[6][7]

Charles Godin (c.1630 – c.1706-1712)

Name variant: Gaudin

Parents:

He was the son of Jacques Gaudin and Marguerite Nicole or Nicolle.

Birth:

Around 1630, he was born in Saint-Laurent de Beaumais (now Aubermesnil-Beaumais), archdiocese of Rouen, Normandy (district of Dieppe, Seine-Maritime).[8][9][10]

Marriage:

A marriage contract with Marie Boucher was signed on October 1, 1656 (registry of Guillaume Audouart). Charles Godin, aged 24, married Marie Boucher, aged 12, daughter of Marin Boucher and Perrine Mallet. The marriage took place at Marin Boucher’s house in Château-Richer.[4:1]

Marriage Act Transcription:
On November 6, 1656, after the publication of three banns on October 2nd, 8th, and 15th, with no impediments found, I, Father André Richard, married, at Marin Boucher’s house in Château-Richer, Charles Godin, son of Jacques Godin and Marguerite Niart from the parish of St-Laurent de Beaumas, and Marie Boucher, daughter of Marin Boucher and Perrine Malet from the Beaupré coast, in the presence of known witnesses François Bélenger and Claude Ober.

Children of Charles Godin & Marie Boucher:[11]

  1. François Gaudin (1659 – 1684)
  2. Marie Godin (1662 – 1733/1773)
  3. Geneviève Godin (1663 – 1737)
  4. Marguerite Godin (1665 – 1744)
  5. Ursule Gaudin (1667 – 1723)
  6. Charles Godin (1668 – 1743)
  7. Anne Gaudin (1670 – 1705)
  8. Catherine Gaudin (1672 – 1724)
  9. Madeleine Gaudin (1673 – 1720)
  10. Pierre Godin (1675 – 1733)
  11. Angélique Godin (1677 – 1718)
  12. Jean-François Gaudin (1679 – 1680)
  13. Alexis Gaudin (1680 – 1764)
  14. Louise Gaudin (1682 – 1752)
  15. Charlotte Gaudin (1683 – 1759)
  16. Françoise Gaudin (1685 – 1765)
  17. Antoine Gaudin (1688 – 1731)

Census Records

1666 Census:

Charles Godin, 35, habitant; Marie Boucher, 22, his wife; François, 7; Marie, 4; Geneviève, 3; Marguerite, 17 months. They lived in Beaupré, Canada.[12]

1667 Census:

Charles Godin, 38; Made Boucher, his wife, 25; François, 8; Marie, 5; Geneviève, 4; Marguerite, 2; Ursulle, 2 months; 5 livestock, 7 arpents under cultivation. They lived at Charles Godin’s home on the Beaupré coast, Canada between August 1, 1667, and August 31, 1667.[12:1]

1681 Census:

Charles Godin, 45; Marie Boucher, his wife, 37; children: François, 22; Marie, 19; Geneviève, 17; Marguerite, 16; Ursule, 13; Charles, 11; Jeanne, 10; Catherine, 8; Madelaine, 7; Pierre, 6; Angélique, 5; Alexis, 2; 1 rifle; 6 horned beasts; 20 arpents under cultivation. They lived in the seigneury of Beaupré, Canada.[13]

Deaths:

  • Between December 1, 1706, and January 18, 1712, Charles Godin died in L’Ange-Gardien, Canada.
  • On July 15, 1730, Marie Boucher died in L’Ange-Gardien, Canada.[14] Only the first and last names are mentioned – blank space.

The Godins

Text by Ludovic Hudon. Chronicle produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Society of Outaouais, Inc., published June 29, 1992

A lineage of Godin (Gaudin) from Quebec descends from Charles Godin and Marie Boucher. The other Godins (called Châtillon) who came at the same time at the beginning of the colony were from Saintonge and Burgundy, while Charles was a native of Aubermesnil-Beaumais in Normandy. This lineage is also completely different from the Godins established in Acadia.

Charles I Godin lived in L’Ange-Gardien after his marriage on November 6, 1656, to Marie Boucher, daughter of Marin and Perrine Mallet. He died at age 75 around 1706, having had seventeen children, sixteen of whom established their own homes. Birth, marriage, and burial records show that their offspring spread along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River and later went to Ontario and the United States. Some among the latter would return to Canada in the Hull region.[15]

Brief biographical sketch

Laforest, Thomas J. (1997). Our French-Canadian Ancestors, for a brief biographical sketch see vol. 25, chap. 13, pp. 125-133.

Sources

  1. Tanguay Vol. 1, p. 71 – 1625 Boucher Marin ↩︎

  2. Baptism of Marie Boucher – FamilySearch ↩︎

  3. Baptism image IGD ↩︎

  4. BAnQ Notarial acts index Inventaire des greffes des notaires du régime français, par Pierre Georges Roy et Antoine Roy; 27 Vol + index 1-8 Vol I pg 66: Marriage contract of Chs Godin and Marie Boucher (October 1, 1656). ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. “FamilySearch Microfilm No. 2371066,” images 1573-1576 of 2642. Marriage contract between Charles Godin and Marie Boucher (October 1, 1656, no. 500). https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSVN-3VPZ?i=1572&cat=1171569 ↩︎

  6. Marriage of Charles Godin – Marie Boucher – FamilySearch ↩︎

  7. Tanguay Vol. 1, p. 255 – 1656 Gaudin Charles ↩︎

  8. Wikipedia: Aubermesnil-Beaumais ↩︎

  9. Fichier origine 021170 Charles Godin 2022 Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie/Québec Federation of Genealogical Societies ↩︎

  10. Dossier Fichier ↩︎

  11. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1730, René Jetté, avec la collaboration du PRDH, 1983, Presses de l’Université de Montréal, A-J, PDF ↩︎

  12. Wikisource: Recensements 1666-1667 Censuses selon Benjamin Sulte Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 4, chap. 4 ↩︎ ↩︎

  13. Wikisource Recensement 1681 Census selon Benjamin Sulte Histoire des Canadiens-français, Tome 5, chap. 4 ↩︎

  14. Burial of Marie Boucher – FamilySearch ↩︎

  15. Les Godin ↩︎

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