Jeanne Fourier

Abt 1651 - Aft 1704  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Jeanne Fourier
  Birth	Abt 1651	France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 23 Jan 1704	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I2079	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Fourier,   b. Abt 1626, France
  Mother	Jeanne Buson,   b. Abt 1631, France
  Marriage	Bef 1651	France   [1]
  Family ID	F1285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	François Vanasse,   b. Between 1639 and 1642, Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France d. Abt 1713, Saint-François-du-Lac, Nicolet-Yamaska, Québec (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	Aft 2 Aug 1671	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Madeleine Vanasse,   b. 3 May 1674   d. Bef 18 Feb 1754 (Age < 79 years) + 2. Bastien Vanasse dit Bastien,   b. 27 Jan 1682   d. 7 Mar 1755 (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F1277	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 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.