Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Madeleine Têtu
1641 - 1703 (~ 75 years)-
Name Madeleine Têtu [1] Birth Between 1628 and 1641 Saint-Sauveur, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France 
[2] Gender Female Death 26 Mar 1703 Beauport, Québec [2, 3] Burial 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) Marriage 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) Marriage 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)Family ID F18947 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 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.
In 1676, she was godmother to Madeleine Boismé, who would grow up to become her daughter-in-law.
- 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 - [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, 2024.
- [S5171] Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890, on ancestry.com.
- [S43] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, from Gale Research, on ancestry.com.