Ambroise Doigt

1644 - 1709  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Ambroise Doigt
  Birth	Between 1641 and 1644	Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	19 Feb 1709  [1]
  Burial	20 Feb 1709	Charlesbourg, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I1329	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Doigt
  Mother	Perrine Alain
  Marriage	Bef 1641	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F819	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Mignier,   b. Between 1637 and 1640
  Marriage	14 Oct 1669	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Magnan,   b. 2 Mar 1681   d. 10 Mar 1758 (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F807	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 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.