Madeleine Olivier

1644 - 1690  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Madeleine Olivier
  Birth	Between 1637 and 1644	Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Apr 1690  [1]
  Burial	22 Apr 1690	Saint-Laurent, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32157	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Olivier,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Louise Prévost,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1637	Caudebec-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19067	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Rousseau,   b. Between 1626 and 1631, Oroux, Deux-Sèvres, France d. Aft 26 Jul 1716 (Age ~ 90 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1667	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Catherine Rousseau,   b. 19 Jul 1668   d. 7 Dec 1749 (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F19065	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.