Marie-Madeleine Olivier

1642 - 1690  (48 years)

• Name	Marie-Madeleine Olivier
  Birth	cir 1642	Caudebec-en-Caux, Rouen, Normandy, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Apr 1690
  Burial	22 Apr 1690	Saint-Laurent, Île d'Orleans, Québec, Canada
  Notes	Marie-Madeleine Olivier, a "Fille du Roio", left France for Canada in 1667.
  Person ID	I9887	Bryan-Martin
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Jean Olivier,   b. cir 1615
  Mother	Louise Prévost,   b. cir 1615
  Family ID	F5430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Rousseau,   b. cir 1626, Oroux, Parthenay, Poitiers, Poitou, France d. Aft 26 Jul 1716, Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1667	Notre-Dame, Québec City, Québec, Canada
  Children	1. Marie-Marguerite Rousseau,   b. 28 Sep 1676, Sainte-Famille, Île d'Orléans, Québec, Canada d. 23 Oct 1730, Rivière-du-Sud, Québec, Canada (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F3919	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Feb 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - cir 1642 - Caudebec-en-Caux, Rouen, Normandy, France Marriage - 5 Oct 1667 - Notre-Dame, Québec City, Québec, Canada Burial - 22 Apr 1690 - Saint-Laurent, Île d'Orleans, 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.