Catherine Baillon

Abt 1645 - 1688  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Catherine Baillon
  Birth	Abt 1645	Montfort-l'Aumery, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Jan 1688  [5, 6, 7]
  Burial	30 Jan 1688	Rivière-Ouelle, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I5274	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	9 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	Alphonse Baillon   d. Bef 19 Oct 1669
  Mother	Louise de Marle   d. Aft 11 Oct 1673
  Marriage	Aft 5 Nov 1639  [1]
  Notes	Date of marriage contract.
  Family ID	F6989	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jacques Miville dit Deschênes,   b. Bef 2 May 1639   d. 27 Jan 1688 (Age > 48 years)
  Marriage	12 Nov 1669	Notre-Dame-de-Québec, Québec City, Québec   [5, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Miville dit Deschênes,   b. 14 Aug 1677, Rivière-Ouelle, Québec d. Bef 11 Feb 1758 (Age < 80 years)
  Family ID	F3364	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Marie Catherine Baillon, de Baillon. She was a fille du roi, 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. Catherine Baillon is also a proven "gateway ancestor"; born to a minor gentry family, she was a descendant of over 1500 documented medieval individuals. Her modern descendants include (but are far from limited to) Jack Kerouac, Nathan Fillion, and Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien. She was a descendant of King Philippe II of France (1165-1223), but oddly, her most recent royal descent was from King András II of Hungary (1176-1235). She was a descendant both of Harold Godwinson, last of the Anglo-Saxon kings, and of William I, the Norman invader who overthrew him at Hastings in 1066. Her most recent ancestor among English kings is Henry I (1068-1135).

  
  

• Sources

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