Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Jeanne Bernard

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Name Jeanne Bernard Birth Between 1649 and 1651 France [1]
Gender Female Death Bef 22 Jun 1715 [1] Burial 22 Jun 1715 Montréal, Québec [1]
Person ID I33139 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
Father Hugues Bernard, b. France d. France
Mother Perrine Destournère Marriage Bef 1649 France [1]
Family ID F19566 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jacques Tuillier dit Desvignets, b. Between 1635 and 1642 d. Bef 19 Aug 1710 (Age ~ 75 years) Marriage 29 Apr 1669 Montréal, Québec [1]
Children + 1. Marie Angélique Tuillier, b. Bef 17 Oct 1683 d. 19 Jan 1765 (Age > 81 years) Family ID F19564 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Mar 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.