Madeleine Gaumond

Abt 1646 - Aft 1703  (~ 57 years)

• Name	Madeleine Gaumond
  Birth	Abt 1646	Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 22 Jul 1703  [1]
  Person ID	I32427	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Gaumond
  Mother	Anne Raymond
  Marriage	Bef 1646	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F18987	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre François,   b. Between 1631 and 1634, Saint-Laurent-de-la-Prée, Charente-Maritime, France
  Marriage	16 Aug 1670	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Catherine François,   b. 13 Mar 1676   d. Bef 23 Sep 1751 (Age < 75 years)
  Family ID	F18980	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.