Marie-Jeanne Toussaint

1652 - 1708  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Marie-Jeanne Toussaint
  Birth	cir 1652
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Dec 1708
  Burial	17 Dec 1708	Champlain, Québec, Canada
  Notes	Jeanne Toussaint, a "Fille du Roi", left France for Canada in 1670. Her origin in France is unknown.
  Person ID	I13903	Bryan-Martin
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2021

  
  

  Family	Noël Carpentier,   b. cir 1643   d. 25 Jan 1728 (Age ~ 85 years)
  Marriage	cir 1672	Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada, or Champlain
  Children	1. Marguerite Carpentier,   b. cir 1684
  Family ID	F5427	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Burial - 17 Dec 1708 - Champlain, Québec, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Filles du Roi

  The Filles du Roi (the King's Daughters) is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV of France. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging male colonizers to settle there, and by promoting marriage, family formation and the birth of children. While women and girls certainly immigrated to New France both before and after this time period, they were not considered to be filles du roi, as the term refers to women and girls who were actively recruited by the government and whose travel to the colony was paid for by the king. The title “King’s Daughters” was meant to imply state patronage, not royal or even noble parentage. Most of these women were commoners of humble birth. Almost every person of French-Canadian descent can claim at least one of these young women in their heritage. They were also occasionally known as the King's Wards.(Sources: Wikipedia and the American-French Genealogical Society) The list to the right are those Filles du Roi from whom we have proven descent.