Ambroise Doigt

1644 - 1709  (68 years)

• Name	Ambroise Doigt
  Birth	Between 1641 and 1644	St-Sulpice, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1641	St-Sulpice, Paris, France   [2]
  Death	19 Feb 1709  [1, 2]
  Burial	20 Feb 1709	St-Charles-Borromée, Charlesbourg, Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I1329	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of GR
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Doigt
  Mother	Perrine Alain
  Marriage	Bef 1641	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F819	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Mignier,   b. Between 1637 and 1640   d. 20 Dec 1713 (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	14 Oct 1669	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Le Cité-Limoilou, Québec City, Québec   [1, 2]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Madeleine Magnan dit Mignier,   b. 17 Nov 1676   d. 18 Aug 1743 (Age 66 years) + 2. Marie Magnan,   b. 2 Mar 1681   d. 10 Mar 1758 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jun 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

  [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.