Jeanne Servinien

Bef 1646 - 1683  (> 37 years)

• Name	Jeanne Servinien  [1]
  Birth	Bef 16 Feb 1646  [1]
  Baptism	16 Feb 1646	Irancy, Yonne, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Feb 1683  [1]
  Burial	21 Feb 1683	Boucherville, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33161	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Servinien
  Mother	Janne Vatard
  Marriage	1 Aug 1626	Irancy, Yonne, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19577	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Ronceray dit Lebreton,   b. Abt 1643, Saint-Sulpice, Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine, France d. Aft 11 Aug 1715 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	13 Oct 1665	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marie Ronceray,   b. Bef 8 Dec 1668
  Family ID	F19575	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Or Sovignian. 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.