Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Anne Leper

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Name Anne Leper Birth Between 1647 and 1649 [1] Gender Female Death 29 Jan 1732 [1] Burial 30 Jan 1732 La Prairie, Québec [1]
Person ID I33302 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
Family François Pinsonneault dir Lafleur, b. Between 1646 and 1647, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France d. 26 Jan 1731 (Age ~ 85 years)
Marriage Abt 1673 Québec City, Québec [1]
Children + 1. Marguerite Pinsonneault, b. Between 1679 and 1680 d. 30 Jul 1747 (Age ~ 68 years) Family ID F19647 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.