Catherine Lalore

Abt 1654 - 1694  (~ 36 years)

• Name	Catherine Lalore
  Birth	Abt 1654	London, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 4 Jul 1690 and 14 Jun 1694  [1]
  Person ID	I33216	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles Lawlor
  Mother	Catherine Depres
  Marriage	Bef 1654	London, England   [1]
  Family ID	F19605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louis Badayac dit Laplante,   b. Abt 1644, Périgueux, Dordogne, France d. Bef 9 Jun 1706 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1673	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Claire Badayac dit Laplante,   b. Abt 1686   d. 22 May 1731 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Family ID	F19604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 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.