Jacquette Michel

1637 - 1710  (~ 80 years)

• Name	Jacquette Michel
  Birth	Between 1630 and 1637	Sainte-Catherine, La Flotte, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Nov 1710  [1]
  Burial	29 Nov 1710	Rivière-Ouelle, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32050	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jacques Michel,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Jeanne Dupont,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1630	La Flotte, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19014	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	André Migner dit Lagachette,   b. Abt 1640   d. 21 Nov 1727 (Age ~ 87 years)
  Marriage	23 Oct 1668	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Françoise Migner,   b. 27 Jun 1674   d. Bef 29 Sep 1750 (Age < 76 years)
  Family ID	F19012	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 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.