Marie Guillaume

Abt 1652 - Aft 1705  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Marie Guillaume
  Birth	Abt 1652	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 30 Dec 1705  [1]
  Person ID	I32689	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Denis Guillaume
  Mother	Anne Caron
  Marriage	Bef 1652	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19332	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicolas Maheu,   b. Abt 1638, Saint-Saintin, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France d. Bef 17 Oct 1673 (Age ~ 35 years)
  Marriage	15 Jan 1671	L'Ange-Gardien, Outaouais, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Geneviève Maheu,   b. 18 Nov 1671
  Family ID	F19330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 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.