Anne Leper

1649 - 1732  (~ 85 years)

• Name	Anne Leper
  Birth	Between 1647 and 1649  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	29 Jan 1732  [1]
  Burial	30 Jan 1732	La Prairie, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I33302	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2021

  
  

  Family	François Pinsonneault dir Lafleur,   b. Between 1646 and 1647, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France d. 26 Jan 1731 (Age ~ 85 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1673	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Marguerite Pinsonneault,   b. Between 1679 and 1680   d. 30 Jul 1747 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Family ID	F19647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 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.