Recently was fortunate to lay my eyes on the names of my 7th Grandmother Anne Colin and 7th Grandfather Nicolas-Vincent Boissoneau married Oct 18 1619. To find this video and and come to know them through history is quite special.
This is so interesting I would love stories of these brave women, any journals survive? Any stories out there? We have some petite in an old cemetery here in southern Oregon
Thank you! As far as I know, there are no surviving journals from the Filles du roi. There are certainly books telling the stories of some of the women, with varying degrees of fictionalized content. One is "Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Hélène St. Onge," though I don't believe it is based on an actual diary (it's a young adult book).
In my quick survey, I have found over 16 women "Filles du Roi" in our ancestry. Thank you for this video and the approach to the subject you have chosen. They are indeed our Founding Mothers.
I love your video. I am a descendant of Marguerite Abraham. My children are descendants (through their father's side) of Anne Marie Phansèque, the only German-born Fille du Roy.
This was really nice to watch, I have 6 confirmed in my lineage so far, building family trees for so many of these women its so interesting to think they each had so many children, who then had so many children. All my ancestors came here before 1690, I was pretty shocked how French Canadian I actually am.
Great video! It added a lot of new info to what I'd already learned and the images really helped make it hit home. So many times when I find an interesting new item on French-Canadian history...it's from you! Thanks and keep 'em coming!
Excellent information. It would be nice to see more on the history of early Canada. The Carignan soldiers are also a large part of the story of the Filles du roi. Very well done and hope to see more on this topic.
Excellent video -- very well put together and clearly very well researched. What music did you use, by the way? I really liked it as well. Been doing more work on my French-Canadian line these last few days, and I quite literally just found out only minutes ago that one of my ancestors, Marie-Reine Charpentier, was one of the Filles do Roi.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I find copyright-free music on www.chosic.com/. You'll see the track names in my video around the 8:20 mark. If you have a French-Canadian branch in your family tree, you'll likely find more than one fille du roi. Good luck in your research!
@@frenchcanadiangenealogist You're most welcome! This video was very well made, and your professionalism in making it reminded me of the Canada: A People's History documentary series by CBC that I watched a great deal of back in elementary school, just a few years after the series was released. So bravo! Gah! I completely missed that. Thank you kindly for directing me to the music nonetheless! Two of my x3 great grandparents were from then-Lower Canada, and respectively married into English-speaking families in Upper Canada. Luckily, because of the outstanding excellence of the French-Canadian records (they are truly impeccable!) I have been able to get many of the lines of those sides of my family back to the 1600s and back to their original places of familial origin, most of which were interestingly from Normandy. But I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye out for more of these Filles du Roi names now. What I couldn't believe beyond anything was that I'm a many-times great nephew of both Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Pierre Boucher de Boucherville. I still can't believe it, despite the records being so clear and backed up by original sources as well -- it seems totally surreal to me even now to have those connections, through those influential figures' respective sisters! By the way, I kept looking, and I'm also a descendant of Françoise Goubille, yet another of the Filles du Roi! Whaddya know!
I’m a descendant of Catherine Bureau ( parents Jacques Bureau & Marguerite Vernier) she married E’tienne Corriveau October 28, 1669 in Ste.Famille Parish,ILE of Orleans, Prov of Quebec, great video,thanks
Apparently my great -x Grandma who was a Filles du roi cheated on my great-x gandfather with 2 other men, had her head shaved and was flogged in the town square ( i think this info come from a court document) later records show him with a woman with a different name. I hope that was the case and it wasnt more gRapey and her being victim.
There isn't a great translation for the French word "collant." It could also be translated as "tights." Obviously a 17th-century version of tights... Hope that clarifies!
Recently was fortunate to lay my eyes on the names of my 7th Grandmother Anne Colin and 7th Grandfather Nicolas-Vincent Boissoneau married Oct 18 1619. To find this video and and come to know them through history is quite special.
Thanks Elena!
This is so interesting I would love stories of these brave women, any journals survive? Any stories out there? We have some petite in an old cemetery here in southern Oregon
Thank you! As far as I know, there are no surviving journals from the Filles du roi. There are certainly books telling the stories of some of the women, with varying degrees of fictionalized content. One is "Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Hélène St. Onge," though I don't believe it is based on an actual diary (it's a young adult book).
In my quick survey, I have found over 16 women "Filles du Roi" in our ancestry. Thank you for this video and the approach to the subject you have chosen. They are indeed our Founding Mothers.
I have 5 so far. They were brave. A dozen or twenty children and no health care.
I love your video. I am a descendant of Marguerite Abraham. My children are descendants (through their father's side) of Anne Marie Phansèque, the only German-born Fille du Roy.
Thank you Marie-Josée!
This was really nice to watch, I have 6 confirmed in my lineage so far, building family trees for so many of these women its so interesting to think they each had so many children, who then had so many children. All my ancestors came here before 1690, I was pretty shocked how French Canadian I actually am.
Thank you!
My 10th great grandmother was a filles du roi, Marguerite Monrea. She had a contract marriage to andrea morin in 1970 in New France. And here iam had.
I am so interested in these women and all about their journey and lives before and after! Any movies or books written on this?
1970? More like 1670
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It was pretty cool to watch! I can trace both my ancestors as Jeanne Petit on my mom side and I think Catherine Charron on my dad side
Wonderful.
So grateful for this posting. Wish the background music wasn't so overbearing and your speech was a little slower.
Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it!
terrific...will be viewing for my class.
Fantastic! Thanks Denise!
Great video! It added a lot of new info to what I'd already learned and the images really helped make it hit home. So many times when I find an interesting new item on French-Canadian history...it's from you! Thanks and keep 'em coming!
Thanks so much Sean! Glad you liked it!
Excellent information. It would be nice to see more on the history of early Canada. The Carignan soldiers are also a large part of the story of the Filles du roi. Very well done and hope to see more on this topic.
Thank you Pamela! I hope to make a video about the Carignan-Salières regiment in the new year.
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I'm not sure why you would think they were a large part of the Filles du Roi story.
Excellent video -- very well put together and clearly very well researched. What music did you use, by the way? I really liked it as well.
Been doing more work on my French-Canadian line these last few days, and I quite literally just found out only minutes ago that one of my ancestors, Marie-Reine Charpentier, was one of the Filles do Roi.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I find copyright-free music on www.chosic.com/. You'll see the track names in my video around the 8:20 mark.
If you have a French-Canadian branch in your family tree, you'll likely find more than one fille du roi. Good luck in your research!
@@frenchcanadiangenealogist You're most welcome! This video was very well made, and your professionalism in making it reminded me of the Canada: A People's History documentary series by CBC that I watched a great deal of back in elementary school, just a few years after the series was released. So bravo!
Gah! I completely missed that. Thank you kindly for directing me to the music nonetheless!
Two of my x3 great grandparents were from then-Lower Canada, and respectively married into English-speaking families in Upper Canada. Luckily, because of the outstanding excellence of the French-Canadian records (they are truly impeccable!) I have been able to get many of the lines of those sides of my family back to the 1600s and back to their original places of familial origin, most of which were interestingly from Normandy. But I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye out for more of these Filles du Roi names now. What I couldn't believe beyond anything was that I'm a many-times great nephew of both Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Pierre Boucher de Boucherville. I still can't believe it, despite the records being so clear and backed up by original sources as well -- it seems totally surreal to me even now to have those connections, through those influential figures' respective sisters!
By the way, I kept looking, and I'm also a descendant of Françoise Goubille, yet another of the Filles du Roi! Whaddya know!
Nice work from my grade 7 class!
Thank you so much! I'm glad your class is learning about this important part of Canadian history.
I am a direct descendant of Marie Anne Metru. Great video thank you
I just found out that I am descended from them . We are related to The Forcier's, Tremblay's, Lavalleys and Lachapelles.
im related to the Forciers as well through my moms side
@@gunship4741 small world? wanna trade details so we can find out how down the line we are related?
I am learning I have roots here ❤
I’m a descendant of Catherine Bureau ( parents Jacques Bureau & Marguerite Vernier) she married E’tienne Corriveau October 28, 1669 in Ste.Famille Parish,ILE of Orleans, Prov of Quebec, great video,thanks
Are all their names known?
Pretty much. Check the work of Foundation Lionel Groulx.
I can trace my family’s heritage to a man and a woman from these ships. All the way to the US
im a Descendant of Catherine De Baillon on my moms side
who elses teacher made them watch this
Apparently my great -x Grandma who was a Filles du roi cheated on my great-x gandfather with 2 other men, had her head shaved and was flogged in the town square ( i think this info come from a court document) later records show him with a woman with a different name. I hope that was the case and it wasnt more gRapey and her being victim.
Direct descendant of Marie lefebvre! Seems like they were all called Marie
Pantyhose?
There isn't a great translation for the French word "collant." It could also be translated as "tights." Obviously a 17th-century version of tights... Hope that clarifies!