Marie Bonheur

Abt 1651 - Aft 1691  (~ 40 years)

• Name	Marie Bonheur
  Birth	Abt 1651	Bruyères-le-Châtel, Essonne, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 5 Aug 1691  [1]
  Person ID	I31892	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Toussaint Bonheur
  Mother	Louise de Belheur
  Marriage	Bef 1651	Bruyères-le-Châtel, Essonne, France   [1]
  Family ID	F15544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Paul Inard dit Provençal,   b. Abt 1647, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France d. Aft 1 Oct 1690, Beauport, Québec (Age ~ 43 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1669	Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Anne Inard,   b. Abt 1673   d. 9 Jan 1741 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F3589	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2014

  
  

• 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.