Nicole Legrand

1651 - 1713  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Nicole Legrand
  Birth	Between 1648 and 1651	Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	5 Oct 1713  [1]
  Burial	6 Oct 1713	Saint-Laurent, Île-d'Orléans, Québec   [1]
  Person ID	I32199	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicolas Legrand
  Mother	Anne Duplessis
  Marriage	Bef 1648	Paris, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19088	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	François Nöel,   b. Bef 15 Apr 1643
  Marriage	22 Oct 1669	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Pierre Nöel,   b. 11 Sep 1677   d. 4 Oct 1748 (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F19086	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2021

  
  

• 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, 2024.