Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Madeleine Gaumond

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Name Madeleine Gaumond Born Abt 1646 Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, Paris, France [1]
Gender Female Died 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 Married 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 Married 16 Aug 1670 Québec City, Québec [1]
Children + 1. Catherine François, b. 13 Mar 1676, d. Bef 23 Sep 1751 (Age < 75 years) Last Modified 8 Mar 2020 Family ID F18980 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2021.