Madeleine Guillaudeau

1639 - Aft 1693  (> 54 years)

• Name	Madeleine Guillaudeau
  Birth	18 Feb 1639  [1]
  Baptism	22 Feb 1639	Sainte-Catherine, La Flotte, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 28 Sep 1693  [1]
  Person ID	I32378	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Guillaudeau,   b. France d. France
  Mother	Madeleine Baudin,   b. France d. France
  Marriage	19 Jun 1634	Sainte-Marie-de-Ré, Charente-Maritime, France   [1]
  Family ID	F19178	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette,   b. Abt 1651, Dampierre-sur-Boutonne, Charente-Maritime, France d. Aft 29 Oct 1696 (Age ~ 45 years)
  Marriage	19 Aug 1669	Québec City, Québec   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jean Poitevin dit Laviolette,   b. 14 Sep 1672   d. 3 Feb 1752 (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F19177	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 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.