Anne Perrault

1647 - 1688  (40 years)

• Name	Anne Perrault
  Birth	17 Nov 1647	Paris, France   [1]
  Baptism	Sainte-Sulpice, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	29 Jun 1688  [1]
  Burial	30 Jun 1688	Saint-Jean, Île d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I5567	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Perrault,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Jean Valta,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1647	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F5713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Blais,   b. Abt 1641, Deux-Sevres, France d. 16 Feb 1700 (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1669	Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jacques Blais,   b. 6 Apr 1682   d. Bef 24 Dec 1759 (Age < 77 years)
  Family ID	F18811	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2014

  
  

• 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, 2021.