Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Jeanne Petit

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Name Jeanne Petit Birth Between 1643 and 1656 Sainte-Marguerite, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1]
Gender Female Death 29 Mar 1733 [1] Burial 30 Mar 1733 Longueuil, Québec [1]
Person ID I1814 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 17 Mar 2021
Father Jean Petit, b. France d. France
Mother Jeanne Gaudreau, b. France d. France
Marriage Bef 1643 La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1]
Family ID F1190 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family François Séguin dit Ladéroute, b. Bef 4 Jul 1644 d. Between 20 Nov 1700 and 10 Oct 1701 (Age > 56 years) Marriage 31 Oct 1672 Boucherville, Québec [1]
Children + 1. Françoise Séguin, b. 1 Nov 1674 d. 19 May 1751 (Age 76 years) + 2. Simon Séguin dit Ladéroute, b. Bef 24 Sep 1684 d. Bef 29 Mar 1758 (Age < 73 years) Family ID F1144 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.