Marguerite Moitié

Bef 1646 - 1701  (> 55 years)

• Name	Marguerite Moitié
  Birth	Bef 29 Jan 1646  [1]
  Baptism	29 Jan 1646	Saint-Barthélemy, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	8 Jun 1701  [1]
  Burial	9 Jun 1702	Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I31899	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Jacques Moitié,   b. France d. Bef 1663, France
  Mother	Françoise Langevin,   b. France d. Bef 28 Jan 1652
  Marriage	Bef 1640	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F7469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joseph Élie Gauthier,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1643   d. 9 Dec 1700 (Age > 57 years)
  Marriage	24 Oct 1663	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Anne Gauthier,   b. 1 Aug 1675   d. 23 Sep 1755 (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F18883	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.