Thank you Aiden for your response. I base my information on years of trying to make a connection to the Goudies with family lines leading back to the Lower Island Cove area of the island. These families have been extensively researched with branches in many parts of Central and North Eastern Newfoundland. I myself grew up in Notre Dame Bay and my grandfather was born in Pilleys Island. It’s my understanding that thats where his mother and father, William and Lily Ann, and Grandparents John and Eliza, moved rrom Little Bay in the late 1800s after the mine there starting to slow down. I’ve received information from Herb Goudie and his family who had researched the LIC group back to the 1700s and they can find no connection for my family anywhere within those documents. Herb deduced from this that my ancestors are a separate Goudie branch that split from the Labrador line. And to add to that, my own family tree research leads me to a dead end whenever I try to connect with known Goudie families and that have listed family trees in the Notre Dame Bay area. I should also mention that my uncles always claimed that we had a connection to indigenous ancestry which makes the Labrador route more plausible for me in terms of where to look. Fyi, I do have a family tree on Family Search and you are welcomed to viewing it if you can find a way to do that. I’m not quite sure how to link you to it. And again thank you for your time and any information would be a plus!

Thanks for that information Aiden, I wasn’t thinking of that possibility. I was aware just the same that Gaudin had morphed into Goudie in several other locales throughout Eastern Canada and the Eastern seaboard of the US. In the meantime, I’ve been pouring over a bunch of old Gedcom files sent to me from Herb Goudie’s family in the St. John’s area. Herb’s family line leads back to the Lower Island Cove Goudies, so his family figured I would have more use for them as my family weren’t connected to his ancestors. These files were generated back in the late 1990s through the early 2000s. And they had done a lot of research through various church and government records but they never got back further than Dec 14. 1859. That’s the year my GGG Grandfather John William Goudie was born. He married Eliza Coombs at LIttle Bay in 1888, but they had been together from at least 1881 when Lily Ann, (my GG Grandmother), their first child was born when John was a miner at Bett’s Cove mines. I should note that John had a brother named Joseph, who I had mentioned in my original post, died in a mining accident at Little Bay in February of 1886 at the age of 33. It seems he was a little older than John and was born in 1853; but again his place of birth isn’t known either. All throughout those files Herb and the other researchers deduce that this family originated outside of the Island before the family name came from Scotland. Herb and a lady named Gale Little, who had done much of the research, were fairly convinced that they had come to Newfoundland from Scotland via Labrador. But I have never been able to make that Labrador connection. The bigger problem is I can’t connect them to any other area either. I know that it is highly unlikely that my ancestors are related to the Goudie line that settled Lower Island Cove and area. But I will keep turning stones until I figure this thing out…and I will definitely follow the Gaudin possibility as well. Thanks again Aiden.