Sébastien Beaudin

Sébastien married Hilaire Ledeslie before 1651 in Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1652, Paris, France

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.


She is said, variously, to have arrived in 1669, or on 15 Aug 1671 on the Saint-Jean-Baptiste. She is said to have been born in the Paris parish of St. Séverin.

Catherine married Pierre Coquin dit Latournelle on 12 Oct 1671 in Québec City, Québec. Pierre (son of Robert Coquin and Alice Fayel) was born about 1628 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; died before 4 Oct 1703; was buried on 4 Oct 1703 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Nicolas Matte on 20 Apr 1705 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec. Nicolas (son of Nicolas Matte and Madeleine Auvray) was born on 22 Sep 1682; was christened on 22 Sep 1682 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec; died before 22 Mar 1760; was buried on 22 Mar 1760 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Prisque Godin on 1 Mar 1734 in Neuville, Portneuf, Québec. Prisque (son of Jean François Godin and Geneviève Lefrançois) died on 30 Oct 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]