Michelle Ouinville

Abt 1647 - 1700  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Michelle Ouinville
  Birth	Abt 1647	Saint-Paul, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Nov 1700  [1]
  Burial	Hôtel-Dieu, Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32874	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Pierre Ouinville,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Antoinette Bonnard,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	Bef 1647	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19427	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicolas Barrabé,   b. Quincampoix, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France d. Between 21 Feb 1674 and 23 Aug 1676
  Marriage	Aft 21 Oct 1668	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Jeanne Barrabé,   b. 30 Dec 1672
  Family ID	F19425	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.