Catherine Pillat dit Charon

Bef 1646 - Bef 1717  (< 71 years)

• Name	Catherine Pillat dit Charon
  Born	Bef 30 Mar 1646
  Gender	Female
  Baptised	30 Mar 1646	Chapel Sainte-Marguerite, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Died	Bef 23 Jul 1717  [1]
  Buried	23 Jul 1717	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I4749	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Pillat,   b. France ,   d. France
  Mother	Marguerite Moulinet,   b. France ,   d. France
  Married	Bef 1646	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F3097	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Charon,   b. 21 Oct 1635, Saint-Martin, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France ,   d. 25 Dec 1700, Montréal, Québec  (Age 65 years)
  Married	19 Oct 1665	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Antoinette Charon,   b. 20 Nov 1670,   d. 5 Oct 1745  (Age 74 years) + 2. Catherine Charon,   b. Between 1679 and 1680,   d. 9 Jun 1739  (Age ~ 60 years)
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F3085	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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, 2020.