Geneviève Leclerc

Abt 1640 - 1687  (~ 41 years)

• Name	Geneviève Leclerc
  Birth	Abt 1640	Saint-Jacques, Darnétal, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 1681 and 1 Apr 1687  [1]
  Person ID	I32225	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Marin Leclerc
  Mother	Geneviève Julien
  Marriage	Bef 1640	Saint-Ouen-de-Longpont, Darnétal, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laurent Poiré,   b. Abt 1630, Saint-Andrè, Appeville-Annebault, Eure, France
  Marriage	26 Nov 1671	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Poiré,   b. 9 Oct 1674   d. Bef 25 Dec 1702 (Age < 28 years)
  Family ID	F19099	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.