Marie Hebert is known in French as one of 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.

HÉBERT / TRUBERT, Marie-Louise-Madeleine 360041

Statut Mariée Date de naissance Vers 1651 Lieu d'origine Mantes-la-Jolie (Notre-Dame) (Yvelines) 78361 Parents Guillaume TRUBERT et Marguerite Meunier Métier du père Maître tonnelier Date de mariage des parents 30-05-1650 Lieu de mariage des parents Mantes-la-Jolie (Notre-Dame) (78361) Première mention au pays 1670 Occupation à l'arrivée Fille du roi Date de mariage 15-10-1670 Lieu du mariage Trois-Rivières (ct Ameau) Conjoint Denis Brosseau Décès ou inhumation Après 03-12-1716 vraisemblablement au Canada

Remarques Ses grands-parents maternels, Nicolas Meunier et Marguerite Farcy (sic) se sont mariés à Mantes-la-Jolie (Ste-Croix) le 15-02-1621. -------------------- Madeleine Hebert arrived in Canada as a "King's Girl" in 1670.