Marguerite Foy

1647 - 1718  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Marguerite Foy
  Birth	Between 1636 and 1647	L'Hermenault, Vendée, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Jan 1718  [1]
  Burial	22 Jan 1718	Saint-Jean, Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32923	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Foy
  Mother	Catherine Blanchard
  Marriage	Bef 1638	L'Hermenault, Vendée, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19452	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	François Dumas,   b. Between 1636 and 1642, Nanteuil-en-Vallée, Charente, France d. Bef 24 Feb 1714 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	Aft 5 Jul 1667	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jeanne Dumas,   b. 19 Aug 1673   d. 11 Jul 1737 (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F19450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 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.