Marthe Beauregard

1643 - 1728  (~ 88 years)

• Name	Marthe Beauregard
  Birth	Between 1640 and 1643	Saint-Patrice, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Oct 1728  [1]
  Burial	22 Oct 1728	Lauzon, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33039	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Beauregard
  Mother	Marie Desmarais
  Marriage	Bef 1640	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gabriel Lemieux,   b. Bef 10 Apr 1630   d. 2 Dec 1700 (Age > 70 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1671	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	1. Marie Marthe Lemieux,   b. 11 Apr 1675   d. Bef 26 Nov 1761 (Age < 86 years)
  Family ID	F19511	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 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.