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Marie Pescher

Female 1649 - 1728  (~ 100 years)


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  • Name Marie Pescher 
    Birth Between 1628 and 1649  France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 19 Nov 1728  [1
    Burial 20 Nov 1728  Montréal, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I33078  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2021 

    Family Jean Harel,   b. Abt 1646   d. Bef 5 Jan 1716 (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1672  [1
    Children 
    +1. Marie Thérèse Jean dit Harel,   b. Between 1673 and 1677   d. Bef 30 Nov 1718 (Age ~ 45 years)
    Family ID F19532  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Or Marie Piché.

      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 unusual among the filles du roi in that her parentage is completely unknown -- we don't even have their names, or the region of France from which she came.

  • Sources 
    1. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.