Marthe Quintel

1651 - Bef 1722  (~ 84 years)

• Name	Marthe Quintel
  Birth	Between 1638 and 1651	Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 26 Dec 1722  [1]
  Burial	26 Dec 1722	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32600	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Denis Quintel
  Mother	Louise Bénard
  Marriage	Bef 1638	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19287	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barthélemy Verreault dit Bourguignon,   b. Between 1631 and 1632, Saint-Jean, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France d. 17 Dec 1700 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	22 Sep 1665	Château-Richer, Montmorency, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Barthélemy Verreault,   b. 13 Jul 1678   d. 3 Jun 1718 (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F19285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Marthe Quitter. 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.