Marie Ripoche

Bef 1632 - Bef 1703  (< 70 years)

• Name	Marie Ripoche
  Birth	Bef 4 Jul 1632  [1]
  Baptism	4 Jul 1632	Sainte-Marguerite, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 20 Mar 1703  [1]
  Person ID	I33061	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	François Ripoche
  Mother	Marie Bernard
  Marriage	Bef 1629	Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19525	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Julien Jamin,   b. Between 1636 and 1642   d. Bef 3 Mar 1704 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	16 Sep 1664	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Françoise Jamin,   b. 15 Nov 1668   d. 13 Jan 1755, Lanoraie, Québec (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F19523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 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.