f a m i l y Children with: Louis Marie dit St. Marie Children: Angelique Marie St. Marie Catherine St. Marie Mathurine Goard Born: 1648, St. Germain des Prairie, Paris, France Married 31 May 1667, Montreal, Quebec, to Louis Marie dit St. Marie Died: 9 Dec 1720, Hotel Dieu, Quebec "Fille du Roi" - National Archives of Canada Mathurine came to New France as one of many Filles du Roi, or Daughers of the King. contracting to marry one of the men trying to build a colony in the New World. These women, known in French as the "fille du roi", agreed to travel to the new settlements in North America and marry a settler there in exchange for a 50 pound dowry from the French King. Of the nearly 1000 women who undertook the journey, about 800 made it to Canada. They made contracts of marriage with the men who had originally settled the New World and usually married within a few days or weeks of the contract signing. Often the women broke the contracts, only to remake them or make new contracts with other men.

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