Catherine Basset

1652 - 1716  (~ 75 years)

• Name	Catherine Basset
  Birth	Between 1641 and 1652	Saint-Ouen-de-Longpont, Darnétal, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Nov 1716  [1]
  Burial	16 Nov 1716	Beauport, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I1537	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Guillaime Basset
  Mother	Marguerite Cave
  Marriage	Bef 1641	Saint-Ouen-de-Longpont, Darnétal, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F904	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Bourgouin dit Bourguignon,   b. Between 1619 and 1639, Notre-Dame, Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, France d. 12 Sep 1719 (Age ~ 100 years)
  Marriage	17 Oct 1667	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Madeleine Bourgouin,   b. 24 Oct 1683   d. 14 Jun 1722 (Age 38 years)
  Family ID	F900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 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.