So instead of doing housework, I have been tracing one of my lines of ancestry on my father’s side back to 1600s France. It was a brick wall, my 3rd great grandmother’s mother and her family. I figured it out early this morning (went to bed) and I started tracing the line back this afternoon. Found another Fille du Roi but then there was a 9th great grandmother that married in Canada around the time of the Fille du Roi but was not a Fille. So when or how did she immigrate? She actually came over in 1645 or 46 with her whole family! She was only about 10 years old at the time. Can you imagine making that voyage from France to New France, over the Atlantic as a young girl? WOW! How exciting…and perhaps quite scary. I wonder if she was excited or hated to leave home. She had to be brave–she was given no other choice, really. She married at 12!!
Here is a website all about her family.
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