Marie Hus

Bef 1642 - 1716  (> 74 years)

• Name	Marie Hus  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 1 Jun 1642  [3]
  Baptism	1 Jun 1642	Calvinist church of Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	19 Oct 1716	Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec   [3]
  Person ID	I31830	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Marc Hué
  Mother	Marie Crespin
  Marriage	18 Oct 1633	Calvinist church of Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [3]
  Family ID	F6999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Boismé,   b. Between 1640 and 1641, Saint-Porchaire, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 13 Jul 1703 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Marriage	7 Jan 1668	Québec City, Québec   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Madeleine Boismé,   b. 1 May 1676   d. Bef 17 Jan 1703 (Age < 26 years)
  Family ID	F18933	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2014

  
  

• Notes

  Or Hue. 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

  [S43] Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, from Gale Research, on ancestry.com. [S5171] Quebec, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families (Tanguay Collection), 1608-1890, on ancestry.com. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.