Marie Bellehache

1658 - 1718  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Marie Bellehache
  Birth	Between 1652 and 1658	Notre-Dame-de-la-Ronde, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Dec 1718  [1]
  Burial	8 Dec 1718	Charlesbourg, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I1463	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Bellehache,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Marie Burelle,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1652	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F868	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gilles Bourré dit Lespine,   b. Between 1640 and 1642, Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley, Manche, France d. 8 Feb 1726 (Age ~ 86 years)
  Marriage	Aft 9 Sep 1673	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Anne Bourré,   b. 26 Jan 1689   d. 2 Feb 1745 (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F831	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 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.