Pierette Lauriault

1656 - 1730  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Pierette Lauriault
  Birth	Between 1654 and 1656	Le Bourget, Seine-St. Denis, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Nov 1730  [1]
  Burial	14 Nov 1730	Berthier-sur-Mer, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33008	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Lauriault
  Mother	Jeanne Bonnet
  Marriage	Bef 1654	Le Bourget, Seine-St. Denis, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19496	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Buteau,   b. Between 1635 and 1637, Sainte-Radégone-la-Virieuse, Marsais-Sante-Radégone, Vendée, France d. 21 Nov 1705 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Marriage	21 Oct 1671	Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, La Côte-de-Beaupré, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marguerite Buteau,   b. Bef 30 Apr 1691   d. 8 Jun 1758 (Age > 67 years)
  Family ID	F19494	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Or Pierette Loriot. 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.