Élizabeth Agnès Lefebvre

Abt 1655 - Bef 1725  (~ 70 years)

• Name	Élizabeth Agnès Lefebvre
  Birth	Abt 1655	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 28 Jul 1725  [1]
  Burial	28 Jul 1725	Cap-Saint-Ignace, Montmagny, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I7240	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Guillaume Lefebvre,   b. France
  Mother	Barbe Viet,   b. France
  Marriage	Bef 1655	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F4881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	François Thibault,   b. Bef 28 Jun 1647   d. Bef 10 Nov 1724 (Age < 77 years)
  Marriage	14 Oct 1670	Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, La Côte-de-Beaupré, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jean François Thibault,   b. 16 Dec 1675 + 2. Geneviève Thibault,   b. 28 Mar 1682   d. Bef 14 Feb 1726 (Age < 43 years)
  Family ID	F4677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 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, 2024.