Marie Gravois

Abt 1646 - 1697  (~ 46 years)

• Name	Marie Gravois
  Birth	Abt 1646	France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 3 Nov 1692 and 13 Oct 1697	Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I430	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	Philippe Étienne dit Lapensée,   b. Between 1627 and 1631, Doeuil-sur-le-Mignon, Charente-Maritime, France d. Bef 7 Jul 1710 (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	3 Nov 1667	Trois-Rivières, Québec   [1]
  Family ID	F355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Nov 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.