Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Élizabeth Agnès Lefebvre

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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 | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of WPF 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
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.