Élisabeth Leroy

1642 - Aft 1708  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Élisabeth Leroy
  Birth	Between 1640 and 1642	Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 25 Jan 1708	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I8571	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Antoine Leroy
  Mother	Simone Gauthier
  Marriage	Bef 1640	Senlis, Oise, Picardy, France   [1]
  Family ID	F5181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Pallereau,   b. Between 1624 and 1629, Villedoux, Charente-Maritime, France d. Bef 23 Nov 1669 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Marriage	Aft 12 Oct 1665	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	1. Marthe Pallereau,   b. 10 Oct 1667
  Family ID	F5127	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Or Isabelle. Or Roy. 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.