Marguerite Hyardin

Bef 1645 - 1720  (> 74 years)

• Name	Marguerite Hyardin
  Birth	Bef 30 Aug 1645  [1]
  Baptism	30 Aug 1645	Notre-Dame, Joinville, Haute-Marne, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	29 May 1720  [1]
  Burial	30 May 1720	Saint-François, Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33002	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	René Hyardin
  Mother	Jeanne Serré
  Marriage	Bef 1645	Joinville, Haute-Marne, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicolas Vérieul,   b. Bef 17 Oct 1632   d. Bef 11 Oct 1714 (Age < 81 years)
  Marriage	Between 5 Oct 1665 and Dec 1665	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Joseph Vérieul,   b. Abt 1683   d. 26 Jan 1736 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F19491	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 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.