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| Name |
Marie Roy |
| Birth |
abt. 1647 |
Port Royal, Acadia, (Maritime Provinces, Canada)  |
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Female |
| Person ID |
I2263 |
Laval+ |
| Last Modified |
27 Mar 2014 |
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- Marie Roy was a Kings Girl see E-link for more information:
http://www.acadian-home.org/kings-daughters-1.html
King's Daughters
Les Filles du Roi
There once was a poet who by influencing public opinion cast a dark shadow over the role of those young women who known as the King's Daughter/Les Filles du Roi. These women actually came to New France as pioneers to an unknown world where the waters had not yet been chartered. This poet, with the sway of public opinion, claimed these young women were "comfort women" for the soldiers and first pioneers who had come to people a new country. Well nothing could have been further from the truth! In fact, there were indeed witnesses to the arrival and marriages of these women who affirmed the very high moral standards of these pioneering women. These same witnesses rejected without all allegations of improprieties on the part of these women.
The truth of the matter regarding these women is that thanks to their tenacity and to their courage - inherited from their ancestors - the "King's Daughters" are truly the mothers of the French Canadian descendants. They assured the survival and the preservation of a moral and cultural and religious heritage. We should all be proud of the contribution these women made as they stood steadfast beside their counterparts to found a new country.. a new world that would allow us to touch the fibers of their lives and that would help us to know the rich French heritage of which we are all daugthers and sons.
In the first census of 1666, there were 3,215 inhabitants. The King's Daughters, were women who arrived in the colony of New France between 1663 and 1673, under the financial sponsorship of King Louis XIV of France. Most were single French women and many were orphans. Their transportation to Canada and settlement in the colony were paid for by the King. Some were given a royal gift of a dowry of 50 livres/pounds for their marriage to one of the many unmarried male colonists in Canada. These gifts are reflected in some of the marriage contracts entered into by the King's Daughters at the time of their first marriages.
The King's Daughters were part of King Louis XIV's program to promote the settlement of his colony in Canada. Some say that between 713-961 women went to New France. Yves Landry in his book Les Filles du Roi du XVIIième Siècles estimates the number to be 770. Upon arrival and marriage of the first settlers to these women what resulted was a population explosion that contributed to the success of the colony. Many of the millions of people of French Canadian descendants today, not only in Canada but in all of North America and elsewhere, descend from one or more of these courageous women of the 17th century.
Taken from aforementioned web site:
Roy, Marie, m. Thibodeau, Mathurin, dit Lalime, Jul. 11, 1667
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