Étiennette Loray

1649 - Bef 1733  (~ 88 years)

• Name	Étiennette Loray
  Birth	Between 1645 and 1649  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 29 Mar 1733  [1]
  Burial	29 Mar 1733	Boucherville, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I44451	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Jean Loray
  Mother	Françoise Lefroy
  Marriage	Bef 1649	Paris   [1]
  Family ID	F25947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Bau dit Lalouette,   b. Between 1640 and 1654, Paris, France d. Bef 15 Nov 1728 (Age ~ 88 years)
  Marriage	15 May 1672	Boucherville, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Mathurin Lebeau,   b. 30 Apr 1684   d. 11 Jan 1757 (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F25945	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2026

  
  

• 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, 2025.