Marie Grandin

Abt 1651 - 1715  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Marie Grandin
  Birth	Abt 1651	Abbaye Saint-Eubert, Orléans, Loiret, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Jul 1715  [1]
  Burial	Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32866	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Michel Grandin,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Marie Lejeune,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1651	Orléans, Loiret, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19423	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Baudet,   b. Abt 1650, Blanzay, Vienne, France d. Bef 13 Jul 1714 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Marriage	23 Sep 1670	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Michael Baudet,   b. Abt 1686   d. 26 May 1764 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Family ID	F19421	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 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

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.