Thomas and Sinnet had four sons and one daughter. I will leave Hans Peder Godt, our ancestor, till last, and mention the other children first.

Hans Henrik Godt (1801 - 1874) owned the estate of Refstrup in the parish of Gadbjerg near Kjeldkaqer.

Christian Thomsen Godt (1804 - 1840) inherited Kjeldaer after his mother died, but he died rather young and had never married. Jorgen Christian Godt (1806 - 1864) owned the estate of Hojris in the parish of Ikast near the city of Herning which was later owned by his son Thomas Godt. The daughter Thomasine Christine Godt (1811-1885) inherited Kjeldaer after her brother died. She married the former vicar Hans Hinrich Wohlgeagen (1810 - 1870) and they had no children. At her death in 1885, the estate that Thomas Hansen bought in 1818 was sold out of the family. One will notice that as the years went by the Godt family became land owners, not tenant farmers.

But what of Hans Peder Godt, the eldest child and our ancestor? Hans Peder Godt was born in Norballe in the parish of Fekted on the 1st of January 1799. In the parish of Vorbasse, his illegitimate daughter was born on the 19th of October 1825 and named Hansine Margrethe Godt. On the 5th of March 1826 he married his daughter's mother, Ane Jonasdatter Poder who was born about 1796. At the time of their marriage, Ane owned a number of estates in Northern Jutland. Her parents, Jonas Peder Poder (1751-1813) and Margrethe Sorendatter (1760 -1813), had been inn-keepers at Lintrup in North Schleswig. About 1827 Hans Peder Godt lived on an estate called Viufgaard owned by his brother-in-law (married to his wife's sister), the Major Ingwersen. Then from 1829 to 1834 he lived as a tenant on a farm owned by the church at Jerlev called Anneksgaarden, in the parish of Jerlev, just south of Vejle. Soon after, in 1834 and until 1845 he owned a farm called Roballegaard in the parish of Hatting just outside the city of Horsens. Just before 1845 he separated from his wife, Ane Poder, and lived with some of his children on his estate of Roballegaard. He left this farm in early 1845 to move to a farm at Soby near Randers. Then he finally divorced Ane Poder on the 23rd of September 1848 and on the 16th of December 1848 married a girl named Jensine Jensdatter who was 28 years old. During his separation Hans Peder and Jensine had 4 illegitimate children, and after the marriage they had one more son. On the 7th of April 1852 Hans Peder Godt, his wife Jensine and four of their children left Soby for a village called Linaa near Silkeborg. But the family never arrived there and all trace of them has been lost.

We will now return to Ane Jonasdatter Poder Godt, the first wife of Hans Peder Godt. In 1849 she was living in the village of Grumstrup in the parish of Vels with her two daughters. They lived there at least up to 1851, but then too, Ane seems to have disappeared without any trace.

It is through the second daughter of Hans Peder and Ane Godt that our family line continues. This daughter, Catherine Sophie Godt was born at Jerlev on the 5th of June 1827 and was confirmed in the church of Hatting in 1842. According to the census of 1845, she was a housekeeper (husjomfru in Danish) with her aunt on the Kjeldkaer estate. In the following years she served as a husjomfru in the cities of Horsens and Fredericia.

It was on the 28th of April 1849 in her mothers house at Grumstrup in the parish of Vedslet that she gave birth to her illegitimate son Anton Godt. The putative father is said to have been the bachelor Rasmus Nielsen, who's father was Nielsen Tjener.