François Boivin

1653 - 1717  (~ 75 years)

• Name	François Boivin
  Birth	Between 1642 and 1653	Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Apr 1717  [1]
  Burial	15 Apr 1717	Boucherville, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I2396	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	Louis Lamoureux,   b. Abt 1647
  Marriage	Bef 1669  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Lamoureux,   b. 3 Sep 1678   d. Bef 16 Jul 1757 (Age < 78 years) + 2. Marie Madeleine Lamoureux,   b. Bef 10 Oct 1680   d. Bef 6 Apr 1758 (Age < 77 years)
  Family ID	F1694	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.