Catherine Baillon

Abt 1645 - Bef 1688  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Catherine Baillon
  Born	Abt 1645	Montfort-l'Aumery, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate death	27 Jan 1688  [3]
  Died	Bef 30 Jan 1688  [1]
  Buried	30 Jan 1688	Rivière-Ouelle, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I5274	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Alphonse Baillon,   d. 19 Oct 1669, La Mascotterie, France
  Mother	Louise de Marle
  Married	Between 1630 and 1640	Chevreuse, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F6989	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Miville dit Deschênes,   b. Bef 2 May 1639,   d. 27 Jan 1688  (Age > 48 years)
  Married	12 Nov 1669	Notre-Dame, Québec City, Québec   [3, 6, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Miville dit Deschênes,   b. 14 Aug 1677, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec ,   d. Bef 11 Feb 1758  (Age < 80 years)
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021
  Family ID	F3364	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Marie Catherine Baillon, de Baillon. 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. She is also a proven "gateway ancestor"; born to a minor gentry family, she was a descendant of king Philippe II of France (1165-1223) and a large number of other documented medieval individuals.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2020. [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas., year only. [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas. [S5178] René Jetté, John P. DuLong, Roland-Yves Gagné, and Gail F. Moreau, "From Catherine Baillon to Charlemagne." American-Canadian Genealogist 25:170, 1999. [S49] Genealogics, by Leo Van de Pas., date only. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2020., date and city only. [S5178] René Jetté, John P. DuLong, Roland-Yves Gagné, and Gail F. Moreau, "From Catherine Baillon to Charlemagne." American-Canadian Genealogist 25:170, 1999., date and city only.