Madeleine Auvray

Abt 1652 - 1734  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Madeleine Auvray
  Alternate birth	Aft 1649	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Birth	Abt 1652	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 May 1734  [1]
  Burial	7 May 1734	Neuville, Portneuf, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I31714	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Antoine Auvray
  Mother	Marie le Normand
  Marriage	22 Aug 1649	Saint Vivien, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [2, 3]
  Family ID	F18823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicolas Matte,   b. Bef 8 Dec 1636   d. Bef 20 Jul 1704 (Age < 67 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1671	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec   [2, 3]
  Children	1. Nicolas Matte,   b. 22 Sep 1682   d. Bef 22 Mar 1760 (Age < 77 years)
  Family ID	F18896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022

  
  

• 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. [S6190] Gilles Brassard, "Madeleine Auvray, fille du roy." 2019. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024., date and city only.