Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Catherine Paulo dit Cordetelle
1647 - Bef 1721 (~ 83 years)-
Name Catherine Paulo dit Cordetelle Birth Between 1638 and 1647 Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1] Gender Female Death Bef 16 Apr 1721 [1] Burial 16 Apr 1721 Montréal, Québec [1] Person ID I32336 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 20 Mar 2021
Father Pierre Paulo, b. France d. France Mother Renée Cordetelle, b. France d. France Marriage Bef 1646 La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1] Family ID F19157 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Étienne Campeau, b. Between 1637 and 1639, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France d. Between 3 Apr 1690 and 22 Dec 1693 (Age ~ 53 years) Marriage 26 Nov 1663 Montréal, Québec [1] Children + 1. Marie Campeau, b. Bef 24 Nov 1665 d. 7 Feb 1736 (Age > 70 years) Family ID F19156 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Mar 2021
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.