Aimée Roux

1659 - 1715  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Aimée Roux
  Birth	Between 1649 and 1659	Montargis, Loiret, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Dec 1715  [1]
  Burial	28 Dec 1715	Saint-Augustin, Portneuf, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32787	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jacques Roux
  Mother	Marguerite Dubois
  Marriage	Bef 1649	Montargis, Loiret, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19383	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Aimard Tinon dit Deslauriers,   b. Between 1640 and 1643, Montignac-Charente, Charente, France d. 12 Mar 1700 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Marriage	Aft 6 Feb 1670	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Tinon dit Desroches,   b. 14 Oct 1673   d. Bef 10 Jul 1753 (Age < 79 years)
  Family ID	F19381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 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.