Louise Gargotin

1646 - Aft 1706  (~ 69 years)

• Name	Louise Gargotin
  Birth	Between 1637 and 1646  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 20 Oct 1706  [1]
  Person ID	I32324	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jacques Gargotin
  Mother	Françoise Bernard
  Marriage	Bef 1637	Thairé, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19154	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daniel Perron dit Suire,   b. 25 Nov 1638
  Marriage	26 Feb 1664	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Perron,   b. Abt 1667   d. Bef 7 Apr 1706 (Age ~ 39 years)
  Family ID	F19150	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 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.