Isabelle Targer

Abt 1634 -

• Name	Isabelle Targer
  Birth	Abt 1634	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I32143	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Daniel Targer
  Mother	Louise Martine
  Marriage	Bef 1634	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mathurin Gerbert dit Lafontaine,   b. Bef 14 Apr 1627   d. Bef 19 Dec 1687 (Age < 60 years)
  Marriage	4 Aug 1659	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Gerbert,   b. Between 1649 and 1660   d. Bef 11 Jun 1749 (Age ~ 100 years)
  Family ID	F19058	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  She was a fille du roi, 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.