Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Catherine Rivet
1646 - 1723 (~ 89 years)-
Name Catherine Rivet Birth Between 1634 and 1646 Saint-Marc/Saint-Mauger, Étampes, Essonne, France [1] Gender Female Death 9 Jun 1723 [1] Burial 10 Jun 1723 Québec City, Québec [1] Person ID I32741 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 22 Mar 2021
Father Pierre Rivet, b. France Mother Marie Sergent, b. France Marriage Bef 1643 Étampes, Essonne, France [1] Family ID F19359 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Pierre Duchesne dit Lapierre, b. Between 1621 and 1637, Mesnil-Saint-Georges, Somme, Picardy, France d. 2 Mar 1697 (Age ~ 76 years) Marriage Aft 7 Jan 1666 Québec City, Québec [1] Children + 1. Jacques Duchesne dit Lapierre, b. 30 Aug 1687 d. 7 Jun 1761 (Age 73 years) Family ID F19358 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 3 Apr 2021
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.