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Marie Guillaume

Female Abt 1652 - Aft 1705  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name Marie Guillaume 
    Birth Abt 1652  Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Aft 30 Dec 1705  [1
    Person ID I32689  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 21 Mar 2021 

    Father Denis Guillaume 
    Mother Anne Caron 
    Marriage Bef 1652  Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F19332  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nicolas Maheu,   b. Abt 1638, Saint-Saintin, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 17 Oct 1673 (Age ~ 35 years) 
    Marriage 15 Jan 1671  L'Ange-Gardien, Outaouais, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Geneviève Maheu,   b. 18 Nov 1671
    Family ID F19330  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 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 
    1. [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.