Filles du Roi
- Profile
- Images
Location: [unknown]
A listing of the Filles du Roi with Wiki-tree profiles can be seen here.
A listing of the Filles du Roi with dates of marriage and spouses can be found at La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan and other sources. See Filles du Roi: Description
To help populate New France, Intendant Talon delegated in 1668 to Anne Gasnier the responsibility of recruiting French girls of marriageable age for the King. Over time, the girls recruited on behalf of the King became known collectively as the Kings Daughters, to distinguish then from the females that previously immigrated to the colony.
Marguerite Bourgeoys was the first person to use the expression "filles du Roi"[1], using the term in her memoir to differentiate the King's recruited "filles à marier" (“girls brought for marriage”) from the girls of marriageable age that migrated to New France either voluntarily or were recruited by others.[2]
Timeline
1668/03/07 --- Pierre Gagneur's vessel ARMEMENT, build in New France and under the command of Alain Durand, docked in Québec on the 7th of March, 1668, to disembark eighty-one Filles du Roi that boarded at the French ports of Dieppe and La Rochelle.
1673/09 --- The last shipment of Filles du Roi arrived Quebec from France, and the program ended. The population of New France had risen to 6,700 people, an increase of 168% in the eleven years since the program had begun. This didn't include the thousands of Coureurs des Bois who took native wives and escaped to freedom of the interior (Indian Country). Not to mention the growing Metis population. Acadians who married native women numbered 400-500 about this time.
Notes
Sources
- ↑ The title “Filles du Roi” (“The King's Daughters") was meant to imply state patronage, not royal or noble parentage. Most of these women were commoners of humble birth.
- ↑ Landry, Yves (1992). Orphelines en France pionnières au Canada: Les filles du roi au XVIIe siècle. Montreal: Leméac Éditeur Inc. pp. 19-20
- A listing of the Filles du roi (King's Daughters) at La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Danielle Liard and Donna Storz. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
edited by Danielle Liard