Gillette Savard

1648 - 1703  (55 years)

• Name	Gillette Savard
  Birth	cir 1648	Saint-Aspair, Melun, Sens, Champagne, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Apr 1703
  Burial	17 Apr 1703	Saint-Jean, Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, Québec, Canada
  Notes	Gillette Savard, a "Fille du Roi", left France for Canada in 1665, taking with her goods worth an estimated 100 livres for her dowry.
  Person ID	I20371	Bryan-Martin
  Last Modified	29 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	François Savard   d. cir 1680
  Mother	Jeanne Moran   d. cir 1680
  Family ID	F7810	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pierre Filteau,   b. cir 1639, Saint-Georges-de-Montaigu, La Roche-sur-Yon, Luçon, Poitou, France d. 1699 (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	22 Feb 1666	Québec City, Québec, Canada
  Children	1. Pierre Filteau,   b. 1685
  Family ID	F7809	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - cir 1648 - Saint-Aspair, Melun, Sens, Champagne, France Marriage - 22 Feb 1666 - Québec City, Québec, Canada Burial - 17 Apr 1703 - Saint-Jean, Île d'Orléans, Montmorency, 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.