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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.