Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Catherine Pillat dit Charon
Bef 1646 - Bef 1717 (< 71 years)-
Name Catherine Pillat dit Charon Birth Bef 30 Mar 1646 Baptism 30 Mar 1646 Chapel Sainte-Marguerite, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1] Gender Female Death Bef 23 Jul 1717 [1] Burial 23 Jul 1717 Montréal, Québec [1] Person ID I4749 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TC, Ancestor of WPF Last Modified 18 Mar 2021
Father Pierre Pillat, b. France d. France Mother Marguerite Moulinet, b. France d. France Marriage Bef 1646 La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France [1] Family ID F3097 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Pierre Charon, b. 21 Oct 1635, Saint-Martin, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France d. 25 Dec 1700, Montréal, Québec (Age 65 years) Marriage 19 Oct 1665 Montréal, Québec [1] Children + 1. Anne Antoinette Charon, b. 20 Nov 1670 d. 5 Oct 1745 (Age 74 years) + 2. Catherine Charon, b. Between 1679 and 1680 d. 9 Jun 1739 (Age ~ 60 years) Family ID F3085 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Mar 2021
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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.
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Sources - [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.
- [S38] Genealogy of the French in North America, by Denis Beauregard. Complete version, 2024.