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Marie Louise Bolper

Female 1662 - 1728  (~ 80 years)


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  • Name Marie Louise Bolper 
    Birth Between 1648 and 1662  Pont-Tranchefetu, Eure-et-Loir, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 17 Nov 1728  [1
    Burial 18 Nov 1728  Saint-François, Île d'Orléans, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I32929  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 24 Mar 2021 

    Father Gilles Bolper 
    Mother Nichole Lechef 
    Marriage Bef 1648  Pont-Tranchefetu, Eure-et-Loir, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F19455  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family François Marceau,   b. Abt 1641, Thiré, Vendée, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Nov 1687 (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Marriage 12 Oct 1671  Sainte-Famille, Île-d'Orléans, Québec Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. Louis Marceau,   b. 25 Apr 1678
    Family ID F19453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Or Beaupère.

      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.