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Catherine Clérice

Female 1653 - 1715  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Catherine Clérice 
    Birth Between 1647 and 1653  Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 1 Mar 1715  [1
    Burial 2 Mar 1715  Varennes, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I1600  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2021 

    Father Pierre Clérice,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Marie Lefebvre,   b. France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef 1653  Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F989  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jacques Lussier,   b. Abt 1646, Saint-Eustache, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 12 Jun 1713 (Age ~ 67 years) 
    Marriage 12 Oct 1671  Québec City, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Catherine Lussier,   b. 20 Jan 1677   d. 10 Aug 1719 (Age 42 years)
    Family ID F960  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2021 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.