Jeanne Petit

1656 - 1733  (~ 90 years)

• 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 | Ancestor of TC, Ancestor of WPF
  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

  
  

• 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

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