Marie Madeleine Guillebeuf

Abt 1655 - 1711  (~ 48 years)

• Name	Marie Madeleine Guillebeuf
  Birth	Abt 1655	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 28 Jul 1703 and 6 Aug 1711  [1]
  Person ID	I4118	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Guillebeuf
  Mother	Madeleine Vavilin
  Marriage	Bef 1655	Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F2813	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Plouf,   b. Between 1636 and 1643, Saint-Martin, Paris, France d. 15 Apr 1700 (Age ~ 64 years)
  Marriage	24 Jun 1669	Montréal, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jean Plouf,   b. 11 Nov 1674   d. 29 May 1734 (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F2758	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 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.