Martine Cronier

Abt 1645 - Bef 1713  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Martine Cronier
  Birth	Abt 1645	Fontaine-le-Bourg, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 9 Feb 1713  [1]
  Person ID	I5023	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Cronier
  Mother	Jeanne Rotrau
  Marriage	Bef 1645	Fontaine-le-Bourg, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F3226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Philippe Destroismaisons,   b. Bef 15 Oct 1637   d. Bef 9 Feb 1713 (Age < 75 years)
  Marriage	18 Nov 1669	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Louise Picard dit Destroismaisons,   b. 3 Apr 1680   d. 28 Jun 1755 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F3210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 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.