Catherine Paulo dit Cordetelle

1647 - Bef 1721  (~ 83 years)

• Name	Catherine Paulo dit Cordetelle
  Birth	Between 1638 and 1647	Notre-Dame-de-Cougnes, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 16 Apr 1721  [1]
  Burial	16 Apr 1721	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32336	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Paulo,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Renée Cordetelle,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1646	La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Étienne Campeau,   b. Between 1637 and 1639, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France d. Between 3 Apr 1690 and 22 Dec 1693 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1663	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Campeau,   b. Bef 24 Nov 1665   d. 7 Feb 1736 (Age > 70 years)
  Family ID	F19156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 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.