Their second daughter, Hermine Petrine was born on the 18th of December 1854.In 1853 or 1854 Catherine Sophie Godt Nielsen moved with her husband and children to a place called Aas Mark in the parish of Sovind, where he worked as a carpenter. The family later lived in Horsens. Around 1860 they lived in the village of Them in the parish of Them. It was here that Catherine was employed as a midwife, after passing an examination in a midwife-school in Copenhagen. Her husband Christian died on the 11th of June 1862 at the age of 42.

On the 4th of June 1864 that Catherine Sophie Godt remarried in the village of Them. Her second husband was a 35 year old tailor named Laurs Matthissen. There seems to be no children from this marriage. Catherine's first child, Anton Godt, was born on the 15th of July 1849 and was baptized in the city of Vedslet on the 21st of April 1863.

Anton Godt had illegitimate twin daughters by Kirsten Marie Rasmussen, born on the 19th of October 1869 when he was living in the parish of Randlev. At this time he was working as a shop assistant or clerk (handelsbetjent) in the city of Horsens. The girls were named Jensine and Hanne Margrethe Godt. They were born in Grindsnap in the parish of Bjerager where their mother lived with her parents. The daughters both died in January of 1870. During a second pregnancy they were married. There is no record of the date of marriage in the church register in Bjerager.

After the twins (the first set of twins in my family line), Anton and Kirsten had three more children. The first  was born on the 4th of February 1871 in Neder Randlev in the parish of Randlev. This child, Jens Christian Johan Emmanuel Godt, is my direct ancestor. He was baptized on the 11th of June 1871 in the church of Bjerager, as Anton and Kirsten had moved to this neighboring parish town after his birth. Jens is the Danish form of John, not Johan as one might guess. Neder Randlev is a village in the parish of Randlev which is south of Aarhus, in a district called Hadsherred near the town of Odder. A girl named Emma Louise Sophie Godt was born in Dyngby on the 23rd of September 1873. A son, Poul Holm Godt, was born on the 23rd of May 1875, also in Ryngby.

At the young age of 17, Jens worked in Copenhagen as a gardener. At this point Jens made the decision to emigrate to the United States of America. He departed Denmark on the 15th of February 1888 destined for New York City. It was at this time he shortened his name to Johan Godt and then later to John E. Godt, because of the lack of space on the emigration papers and other registers. Also, in New York the immigration people were paid by the number of people they put through each day, so John Godt was much faster to write than his full name of Jens Christian Johan Emmanuel Godt.

John E. Godt upon entering the United States, settled in the heart of Illinois, LaSalle County. He lived with his sister Emma, who had come over here earlier with her brother Poul. Poul was to return to Denmark after only a few years.

John E. Godt lived and worked around LaSalle and nearby cities. By reading their wedding papers and the arrival time of one Jennie Tomena Wallin, one could say a wedding was probably arranged even before they met. Jennie entered the United States on the 23rd of March 1891 at the age of 16. She married John on the 30th of April 1891. When Jennie came to the United States, she joined her parents and some of her older brothers. How sad it must have been to have divided the family, but what happiness it must have been on her arrival and marriage. Jennie's parents, Thomas Wallin and Gertrude Olson, had come to the United States from Norway.

John E and Jennie had a total of 9 children, the first born in 1892 and the last in 1913. During this time the family moved from the city of LaSalle to Ottawa, to Utica, to Deer Park Township, to Oglesby and finally to Dixon, all in the state of Illinois.