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Les Filles à Marier

I had fun checking out if I have an ancestor that was a Les Filles à Marier. Translation means Girls to Marry. In 1634 through September 1663, 262 girls came from France to marry men in New France. They came just before the Filles du Roi. More information on website below.

I had known about these girls but had never checked to see if any of them were my ancestors. I found a list on the American-French Genealogical Site!

When I did my French Canadian genealogy, I created a binder of my ancestors who were from France. They are each the Earliest Known Ancestor (EKA) and brick wall for each line.

Each page was of one of these ancestors with what I knew and room on the sheet to put more information as I did research on them.

There is 130 people in this binder. I took this binder and searched on the following webpage to see if I had any of the Filles à Marier ancestors.


https://afgs.org/site/les-filles-a-marier



I found four of them!! They are:

Gabrielle Barre married Guillaume Landry

Marie Chapelier married Robert Drouin

Anne Martin married Jean Cote

Madeleine Surget married Jean Clement-LaPoint

The next thing I need to do is create a list of my line from me back to each of these ladies. Then I can order a certificate and a pin (shown on right) from American-French Genealogical Society. Information on the same website page listed above.


Let me know below if you are related to any of them!

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Filles du Roi [King's Daughters] Recipe CookBook

The King's Daughters have a recipe cookbook Published by the "Whatsoever Circle" of Newport, NH 1903.

The poem on the front cover, under what is shown on the right is:
"Cookin's like religion is - 
Some's 'lected, and some aint
An' rules dont no more mek a cook
Den sermons make a saint."


Barton & Wheeler, Newport, N.H. in 1903.
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Ancestry.ca Advisory Board member

Meet the AncestryⓇ Canada Family History Advisory Board

I am excited to say that I am a member of Ancestry.ca's Advisory Board. 
I would love to help you look for records on Ancestry.ca

Check out the article at: 


Published Article
I have a published article on Ancestry blog  Exploring the Drouin and Tanguay Collections
Found at: 


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Tanguay Collection, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian families, 1608-1890

This post explains how to use the Tanguay Collection on Ancestry.ca

This is one of the most important databases you will want to use in your Quebec research found at:

Result page
Enter the information you know in the search page.

Click Search

A result page appears as shown on the right.


This gives you some information but in this database always click on View images. I have listed three reasons why to view the image and how to understand what you are seeing.
  • More information is given.
    View image gives you the whole page that the record appears on.
    Find your family. The whole family is listed chronologically with baptism/christening, marriage and death dates and location for easy entry into your software. The couple's father's names are listed. 
This is one of my families. This is a scanned copy of a photocopy I made from the book in the 1980s. This is how the record appears when you view a record. I have added explanations for each item.
At the top is the marriage date and location.

  • Footnotes
    Beside the wife's name in the above example is (1). This is indicating that there is a footnote at the bottom of the page. They do not appear on the results page. A footnote for Louis Hebert told me he was the first European landowner of Canada. A footnote beside one of Louis' children told me they were the first marriage in Canada. 
  • Missing Records
    I searched for Louis Hebert in the Ancestry search page for this database. Louis died in 1649 Quebec. There were no results.

    I knew he was in the book because I have a hardcopy of his entry. I searched for his son. [A daughter would have worked as well.] When the son's record appeared, I clicked on View image. I scrolled up and found Louis.

    Instead of searching for a child I could have searched using just the surname. Then click on view a record for any of the results given. You will then be able to see that actual page. Review the names on that page. If not on that page use the arrows to go to the previous page or the next page. Arrows are located in the middle of the right and left sides.

    Why didn't he show up? Louis' record is very light. This is a different publishing of the copy I used because Louis and Guillaume are not on the same page in my publication. They might not have been able to recognize this when indexing the record. 
If I didn't know he was there I might have given up. Go to the surname page and look at all the entries for the family. Follow the line back each generation. 

Always view the document.
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Drouin Collection Vital and Church records, 1621 – 1968

This collection is copies of handwritten recordings of baptisms, marriages and burials. There are several other types of church records as well such as confirmations, dispensations, censuses, statements of readmission to the church, etc.

The source and link to begin searching this database is:
www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/drouinvitals/

Not only is it hand written but the majority of the records are written in French. Some are written in English, Latin, or Italian. Use Google translate.

Results page
The search for Charles Landry gave the following top three entries.

Individual Record 
Click on the title of the record [in blue] that you want to look at. The following appears. Note there is no date given on the above screen.
View
Read through to find the record of a Charles Landry. He and Marguerite Landry are the parents of Mary who was baptized 21 July 1764. Year was on the previous page. 






Note
From the results page you may click on View image. This brings you directly to the image by passing the individual record page.

Another Example
Searching for Guillaume Hebert who died 1639 the following record was found.







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French Canadian records on Ancestry.ca

Two Quebec Record Collections on Ancestry.ca

In the 1980s I researched my paternal line back to the first European landowner of Canada. There was no internet at the time so all was done with mail, library and archives. My paternal grandmother gave me the name of her parents, their marriage date and the names of her fifteen siblings. I requested by mail original documents of my great grandparents’ marriage certificate. That gave me their birth province location and approximate year. Once I had copies of their birth certificates, I then requested a copy of the original documents for their parents and so on back a few generations. I mailed requests for death certificates and marriage certificates for each generation. I also found copies, written in French, on microfilm of the events.

When researching my French Canadian ancestors there were two collections which enabled me to research farther back and easier than mailing and paying for each certificate especially when those were no longer available. The collections are the Drouin Collection and the Tanguay Collection. These volumes of books are a must for anyone researching in Quebec, [Lower Canada] Canada.

The Drouin Collection Quebec contains vital and church records from 1621 – 1968.  The Tanguay Collection, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian families, 1608 – 1890 is a genealogical Dictionary of Canadian Families from the Foundation of the Colony to the Present Day to 1890. I was researching in the eighteen hundreds before my family tied into these wonderful databases so do not get discouraged if your family does not appear at first. As you go back each generation in your research, search to see if you have tied into them yet or not. I had to live in a capital of Canada to have access to them in the 1980s, now they are available on Ancestry.ca for easy access.

The Ancestry description for both databases are listed below. I have also created a separate post for each with examples. Please click on the title for the collection to learn more about each database.

 Drouin Collection Vital and Church records, 1621 – 1968

 Ancestry description of the database
"Until the late 1900s, church registers in Quebec served as civil and vital records in that province. Throughout the years a second copy of church records, from all denominations, was sent annually to the appropriate courthouse. During the 1940s, the vital record collections in courthouses throughout Quebec were filmed by the Institut Généalogique Drouin. The filming of vital records continued for some areas up through the 1960s. Consequently, this filmed set of records became known as the Drouin Collection.

The source and link to begin searching this database is:
www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/drouinvitals/

The majority of the records in this database come from Catholic parishes. However, since all denominations were to send copies of their records to the courthouses, other churches whose records are contained in this database include:

·         Adventist
·           Congregational
·         Pentecostal
·         Anglican
·         Episcopal
·         Presbyterian
·         Apostolic
·         Evangelical
·         Protestant
·         Baptist
·         Free Church
·         Orthodox Romanian
·         Christ Church
·         Greek Orthodox
·         Russian Orthodox
·         Christian Brethren
·         Holiness Movement
·         Salvation Army
·         Christian Missionary     Alliance
·         Jewish
·         Unitarian
·         Church of Christ
·         Lutheran
·         United Church
·         Church of England
·         Methodist
·         Universalist
·         Church of Scotland



Record Types
Most of the records in this collection include baptisms, marriages, and burials. However, several other types of church records are also included. These records may be confirmations, dispensations, censuses, statements of readmission to the church, etc.

Language of the Records
The majority of the records are written in French, but some are written in English, Latin, or Italian.

These records include:
• Name
• Baptism date
• Event Place
• Church name
• Image of the recording document page
• In French 

Tanguay Collection, Genealogical Dictionary of Canadian families, 1608-1890

 Ancestry description of the database
"Entries are organized alphabetically, by husband's surname. The dates in large, bold type mark the beginning of a new family record. That date is the date of the husband's first marriage. The entries may contain the following details as applicable:
• husband's name
• husband's baptism or christening year and place
• year and place of marriage
• year and place of burial
• parents' names
• wife's name (if there were multiple marriages, each wife will be listed in order)
• wife's baptism or christening year and place
• year and place of marriage
• year and place of burial
• parents' names
• children's names (these are in italics)
• baptism or christening dates and places
• marriage dates and places
• spouse's names
• years and places of burial
Roman numerals represent the generation distant a person is from the family's original immigrant ancestor. Entries also include the following abbreviations:

b = baptism or christening date
m = marriage date
s = burial date
III, IV (etc.) = generations away from immigrant ancestor
superscript numbers = these represent a place within the family record; for example if a superscript 3 follows Quebec at the beginning of the record, whenever a superscript 3 appears in that record, it means the event took place in Quebec. Note that this is only applicable within the particular family record and not throughout the book. In another family record, a superscript 3 might stand for another place."


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Filles du Roi

Two-thirds of French Canadians have an ancestor who was a filles du roi ~ A King's Daughter.

Since I am related to the first white landowner of Canada the chances were high that at least one of my grandmothers was one. I found three.

I googled to find a list of the names of the girls. With my FamilySearch pedigree on one screen and the list on another, I went through all the French Canadian wives on my pedigree that were married between 1663 and 1673.  I was so excited when I found one! Then when I clicked on her in FamilySearch, someone had very nicely added the logo as her profile picture!! Thank you whoever that was!
Then I found another ancestor whose son married the daughter of the first one I had found!

Summary of who they were 
France needed more women to come to New France. The British had lots of females going to the colonies. Jean Talon and King Louise XIV come up with the idea of sending young women to New France with a dowery. Most were poor. None were prostitutes. All volunteered. 800 left but 1/10th died on the voyage over.

I like what CBC said (link below) - The biggest Baby Boom in Canadian history! The population of New France doubles in a decade. They also mentioned "Speed dating, 1600s style" !!
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/2017/canadathestoryofus/most-french-canadians-are-descended-from-these-800-women-1.4029699

Websites
For more information on who these girls were, check out the following websites:
Check out more than one of the above websites for information.
Note the difference of information between the two websites below for a few of my ancestors.
Jalais, Marie
Born about 1653 in the parish of Saint-Martin, Ile de Re (Arrondissement and diocese of La Rochelle), Aunis, 
Daughter of Jean Jalais and Barthelemie Bescendye. 
Marie arrived in Canada in 1669, about age 16
She was one of twenty girls who signed the 1667 Complaint at Dieppe

m. 1. Lauzé, Jean, dit Matha, Aug. 26, 1669 
Settled in Sainte-Famille
They had 3 children. 

m. 2. Leclerc, Robert, Jul. 9, 1680
Married in Quebec City. 
Robert was a carpenter and bourgeois. In 1667 a servant of Jean Soulard at Quebec City. 
8 children
Marie Jalais died 8 Dec 1721 at Hotel-Dieu de Quebec
Robert LeClerc died 5 Jul 1731.
Caillé, Marie-Jeanne 
Marie-Jeanne born about 1654 in the Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs parish in Paris.
Daughter of Claude Caille and Anne Malle
Arrived in Canada in 1671, at about 17 years.

m. Pepin, Jacques, Nov. 16, 1671 at Trois-Rivieres
Settled in Nicolet
9 children 
First 3 baptized in Trois-Rivieres
The other were baptized at Champlain. 
Jacque died 9 Apr 1715
Marie-Jeanne died 12 Mar 1734. 

Raclos, Madeleine
Born about 1656 in Paris
Daughter of squire Godebon Raclos and Marie Viennot.
Madeleine arrived in Canada in 1671 with her two sisters Francoise and Marie Raclos, also Filles du roi, and their father Godebon.
It is unusual for a father to accompany their daughters. One definition of Filles du roi is that they came without parents. 

m. Perrault, Nicolas, contract Nov. 11, 1671 Cap-de-la-Madeleine. 
She had a dowry worth over 1,000 livres. 
Nicolas was donne of the Jesuits until 1663. 
He was a servant of Jacques Testard's widow at Montreal. 
Servant of the Sulpicians.
Nicolas became a renowned explorer, interpreter and fur trader. 

An article about Nicolas  at The French Canadian Genealogist

 Another website lists:
Marie (Jallais) Jalais abt 1653 St-Martin de Re, France - 8 Dec 1721
Marie Jeanne Caillé abt 1653 Paris, St-Nicolas-des-Champs, France - 12 Mar 1734
Madeleine Raclos 6 Jan 1656 Chaumont-en-Bassigny (St-Jean-Baptiste), Champagne, France - 8 Jul 1724






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