Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Marie Valade
1647 - Bef 1719 (< 72 years)-
Name Marie Valade Alternate birth Between 1641 and 1649 [1] Birth 1647 St-Nicolas, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France 
[2] Gender Female Death Bef 9 Jan 1719 [1, 2] Burial 9 Jan 1719 Notre-Dame-de-Montréal, Ville-Marie, Montréal, Québec [1, 2] Person ID I45053 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 16 Apr 2026
Father André Valade Mother Sarah Cousseau, b. La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France d. Bef 25 Jul 1691 Marriage 3 Feb 1630 Ste-Marguerite, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1, 3] Family ID F26232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Jean Baptiste Cadieux, b. Bef 29 Aug 1629 d. 30 Sep 1681 (Age > 52 years) Marriage 26 Nov 1663 Notre-Dame-de-Montréal, Ville-Marie, Montréal, Québec [1, 2] Children + 1. Pierre Cadieux, b. Bef 7 Apr 1666, Montréal, Québec d. Bef 8 Oct 1727 (Age < 61 years)Family ID F26266 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 Apr 2026
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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.
She arrived 30 Jun 1663 on the Phoenix de Flessingue.
- 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, 2025.
- [S8920] Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) (PRDH) database.
- [S8920] Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique (The Research Program in Historical Demography) (PRDH) database., year and country only.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2025.