Madeleine Têtu

1641 - 1703  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Madeleine Têtu  [1]
  Born	Between 1628 and 1641	Saint-Sauveur, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	26 Mar 1703	Beauport, Québec   [2, 3]
  Buried	27 Mar 1703	Beauport, Québec   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I7966	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Aimé Têtu
  Mother	Élizabeth Delacour,   b. 1615, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France ,   d. 15 Jan 1689, Ponchon, Oise, Picardie, France  (Age 74 years)
  Married	Bef 1641	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [2]
  Family ID	F18872	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Joubert,   b. Bef 18 Mar 1642,   d. Aft 1713  (Age > 72 years)
  Married	4 Nov 1669	Québec City, Québec   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Pierre Joubert,   b. 7 Oct 1670,   d. Bef 27 Oct 1721, Charlesbourg, Québec City, Québec  (Age < 51 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2014
  Family ID	F18947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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. In 1676, she was godmother to Madeleine Boismé, who would grow up to become her daughter-in-law.

  
  

• Sources

  [S43] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, from Gale Research, on ancestry.com. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2020. [S5171] Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890, on ancestry.com.