Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Marguerite Sennecy
1651 - 1735 (~ 85 years)-
Name Marguerite Sennecy Birth Between 1650 and 1651 Notre-Dame-du-Chemin, Orléans, Loiret, France [1] Gender Female Death 24 May 1735 [1] Burial 25 May 1735 Montréal, Québec [1] Person ID I33296 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
Father Pierre Sennecy Mother Marguerite Léger Marriage Bef 1650 Orléans, Loiret, France [1] Family ID F19646 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jean Senécal, b. Bef 20 Sep 1646 d. Bef 11 Feb 1723 (Age < 76 years) Marriage 15 Oct 1672 Montréal, Québec [1] Children + 1. Pierre Senécal, b. Bef 16 Aug 1673 d. 16 Jun 1734 (Age > 60 years) Family ID F19644 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
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Notes - Or de Senne.
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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.