Élisabeth Godillon

Bef 1649 - Aft 1715  (> 66 years)

• Name	Élisabeth Godillon
  Birth	Bef 4 Feb 1649  [1, 2]
  Baptism	4 Feb 1649	St-Nicolas, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	Aft 1688	Lachenaie, Les Moulins, Lanaudière, Québec   [2]
  Death	Aft 14 Mar 1715  [1]
  Person ID	I45031	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Apr 2026

  
  

  Father	Jean Godillon
  Mother	Marie Boulet
  Marriage	2 Jun 1642	St-Saturnin, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France   [1]
  Family ID	F26256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Léonard Éthier,   b. Bef 17 Oct 1638   d. Nov 1689, Lachenaie, Les Moulins, Lanaudière, Québec (Age > 51 years)
  Marriage	22 Sep 1670	Notre-Dame-de-Montréal, Ville-Marie, Montréal, Québec   [1, 2]
  Notes	Contract dated 17 Sep 1670.
  Children	+ 1. Élisabeth Éthier,   b. Bef 2 Feb 1673, Montréal, Québec d. 26 May 1743 (Age > 70 years)
  Family ID	F26255	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 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 31 July 1670 on the Nouvelle France.

  
  

• Sources

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