Anne Leseigneur

Bef 1649 - Bef 1733  (< 84 years)

• Name	Anne Leseigneur
  Birth	Bef 1 Mar 1649  [1]
  Baptism	1 Mar 1649	Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Baptised	1 Mar 1649	Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Death	Bef 4 Jul 1733  [1]
  Burial	4 Jul 1733	Chambly, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I1648	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Guillaume Leseigneur
  Mother	Madeleine Sancy
  Marriage	27 Feb 1645	Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F1106	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Bessette dit Brisetout,   b. Between 1623 and 1642, Cahors, Lot, France d. 5 Jan 1707 (Age ~ 84 years)
  Marriage	Aft 3 Jul 1668	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Notes	Date of contract.
  Children	+ 1. Marie Bessette,   b. Abt 1669   d. 18 May 1714 (Age ~ 45 years) + 2. François Bessette,   b. 26 Jul 1685   d. 3 Jun 1764 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F1097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Anne Seigneur. 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

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