Jeanne Mansion

1649 - 1728  (79 years)

• Name	Jeanne Mansion
  Birth	1649	St-Jacques, Metz, Moselle, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Jul 1728  [1]
  Burial	10 Jul 1728	St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I44734	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Jacques Mansion
  Mother	Anne Deguaincour
  Marriage	Bef 1649	Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France   [2]
  Family ID	F26100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Charles Churlot dit Desmoulins,   b. 1641, St-Barthélemy, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France d. Between 10 Jan 1695 and 10 Nov 1698 (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1669	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Madeleine Churlot Dumoulin,   b. 14 Jan 1676, Boucherville, Longueuil, Montérégie, Québec d. 14 Mar 1703 (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F26098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2026

  
  

• Notes

  She was a fille du rois, a "daughter of the king." By 1660 or so it had become apparent that the fledgling North American colony of New France was badly short of marriageable women. To ameliorate this, between 1663 and 1673 the French government recruited respectable young women of limited prospects and, after vetting them for suitability, provided each of them with a small dowry, a chest of clothes, and one-way passage to Quebec. The approximately 800 women who made this journey became known as the "filles du roi", the "daughters of the King." Millions of modern French-Canadians can trace their descent from them, quite often from several. She arrived 30 Jun 1669 on the St Jean Baptiste.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8920] Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) (PRDH) database. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025.