Madeleine Plouart et Tiremont

Bef 1653 - 1684  (> 30 years)

• Name	Madeleine Plouart et Tiremont
  Birth	Bef 1 May 1653  [1]
  Baptism	1 May 1653	Pollet de Saint-Pierre de Neuville near Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 14 May 1683 and 10 Apr 1684  [1]
  Person ID	I33266	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Michael Plouart
  Mother	Jeanne Fouquet
  Marriage	Bef 1653	Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Viau dit l'Esperance,   b. Abt 1640, Clisson, Loire-Atlantique, France d. 14 Sep 1723 (Age ~ 83 years)
  Marriage	21 Jan 1670	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Michel Viau dit l'Esperance,   b. 4 Dec 1675   d. 17 Feb 1720 (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F19629	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

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