Catherine Lemesle

Abt 1646 - Aft 1716  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Catherine Lemesle
  Birth	Abt 1646	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Baptism	Saint-Pierre du-Chastel, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 3 Mar 1716	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I5931	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Lemesle
  Mother	Marguerite Renard
  Marriage	Bef 1646	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F18937	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Morin,   b. Abt 1647, St. Etienne de Brillouet, Poitou, France d. 12 Dec 1706 (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	13 Jun 1672	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Louise Morin,   b. 25 Oct 1678   d. 20 Feb 1710, Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec (Age 31 years) + 2. Marie Jeanne Morin,   b. 22 Apr 1685   d. 26 Nov 1755, Québec City, Québec (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F18898	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 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.