Marguerite Lamiro

Abt 1645 - 1706  (~ 61 years)

• Name	Marguerite Lamiro
  Alternate birth	Abt 1644	Paris, France   [1]
  Birth	Abt 1645	Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	17 Oct 1706  [1]
  Burial	Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I31827	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	François Lamiro,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Jeanne Closse,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1644	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F18961	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Honoré Martel de Lamontagne,   b. Abt 1632, Saint-Eustache, Paris, France d. Between 29 Aug 1708 and 3 Sep 1714 (Age ~ 76 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1667	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marguerite Martel,   b. 29 Aug 1676   d. Bef 15 Feb 1734 (Age < 57 years)
  Family ID	F18960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2020

  
  

• 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.