Françoise Pédenelle

Abt 1647 - Bef 1706  (~ 59 years)

• Name	Françoise Pédenelle
  Birth	Abt 1647	Loix, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 8 Jul 1706  [1]
  Burial	8 Jul 1706	Saint-François, Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I31761	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Pedeneau
  Mother	Marie Bohet
  Marriage	21 Jan 1647	Loix, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F18839	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maurice Arrivée,   b. Abt 1605, Saint-Denis-la-Chevasse, Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire, France d. 26 Aug 1687 (Age ~ 82 years)
  Marriage	2 Jun 1670	Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Maurice Arrivée,   b. 8 Mar 1671   d. 17 Dec 1733 (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F18920	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2014

  
  

• 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.