Goudeau · Borgen · Padrnos

Family history

Two sides of one family. One reached Louisiana in 1733 as the king's doctors. The other came by way of Norway, Bohemia and the Dakota prairie, and arrived in the 1960s with the space program.

How we got here

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  1. 1667La RochelleEdmé Goudeau is chief naval surgeon of the port.
  2. 1733Fort ToulouseDr. Michel Goudeau arrives in French Louisiana as a king's doctor.
  3. 1751Fort de ChartresMichel takes his family up the Mississippi to the Illinois country.
  4. 1764Pointe CoupéeMichel refuses to live under British rule and moves south. He dies on New Year's Eve.
  5. 1798Bayou Rouge PrairiePierre Goudeau II joins his uncle Antoine on land bought from Panroy of the Tunica.
  6. 1852–86MarksvilleJulien Jules Goudeau serves Avoyelles Parish as clerk, alderman and treasurer.
  7. c. 1867Spillville, IowaMatt and Marie Petrik arrive from Bohemia with his elderly parents.
  8. 1872Tabor, Dakota TerritoryThe Petriks and Honers settle with the first Czech colony.
  9. 1882Trondheim → Sioux FallsThe Sorken family emigrates, Ingeborg aged 11.
  10. 1886Trondheim → Sioux FallsJohan Severin Borgen, 19, sails on the Hero.
  11. 1890TaborMatt Petrik founds the Tabor Band.
  12. 1894NebraskaGeorge J. Padrnos born, probably to Moravian immigrants Jan and Marie Padrnos.
  13. 1904Trondheim → Sioux FallsJohan goes back to Norway and brings his widowed mother over.
  14. 1921OmahaGeorge Padrnos marries Lillian Honner.
  15. 1921OpelousasRoss Goudeau Sr. marries Esther Jeansonne. Ross Jr. is born in October.
  16. 1923Crooks, S.D.Ivan Maynard Borgen born.
  17. 1931Lake Andes, S.D.Patricia Padrnos born.
  18. 1944NormandyRoss Goudeau Jr., Army Signal Corps, in the D-Day invasion.
  19. 1950LafayetteRoss Sr. and Jr. run coin machines. Ross Jr. marries Dorothy Mouton.
  20. c. 1964SlidellIvan and Pat Borgen arrive. Ivan works on the Saturn and Apollo program.

Father's side

Goudeau

Naval surgeons at La Rochelle from 1667. Dr. Michel Goudeau came to French Louisiana in 1733. His descendants were post surgeons at Mobile, Illinois and Pointe Coupée, then planters at Bayou Rouge Prairie in Avoyelles Parish. Twelve generations, ending in Marksville and Lafayette.

Married into the Acadian Jeansonne family and the Moutons.

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Mother's side

Borgen & Padrnos

Norwegian cottars from the Borgen farm at Verdal, who emigrated to Sioux Falls in 1886. Czech homesteaders from Bohemia and Moravia on the Missouri River, including Matt Petrik, the Tabor bandleader. Ivan Borgen, a NASA engineer, brought the family to Slidell.

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About this site

Compiled in October 2026 from published family research, parish and census records, archives in Norway, England and the United States, cemetery records and obituaries. Each page names its sources and marks what is proven and what is still a lead. To protect privacy, living people appear by name only.