Madeleine Hanneton

1645 - 1689  (~ 45 years)

• Name	Madeleine Hanneton
  Birth	Between 1644 and 1645	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Mar 1689  [1]
  Burial	14 Mar 1689	Boucherville, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I1899	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Hanneton,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Marie Fant
  Marriage	Bef 1644	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F1230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joachim Reguindau,   b. Bef 8 Nov 1637   d. 6 Mar 1714 (Age > 76 years)
  Marriage	Aft 6 Jan 1669	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jacques Reguindau dit Joachim,   b. 25 Feb 1673   d. Bef 14 Mar 1750 (Age < 77 years)
  Family ID	F1217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Madeleine Alton. 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.