Now that I know we can trace our lines back to the Filles du Roi and Carignan Soldiers, I continued my research this time realizing an even bigger surprise.
My next discovery was that one of our Fille du Roi actually can be traced to Charlemagne, King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. Tracing a family back that far can only be accomplished if your family lines tie into royalty because the commoners were barely able to keep up with their day-to-day lives let alone keep track of who their ancestors were.
In fact, just the other day, Dick Eastman in his blog, talked about our ancestors of the 1600s and how rudimentary their lives were living day to day, barely surviving the daily chore of existing understanding very little about hygiene and health, possessing little to no knowledge, and other features of life that make ours so interesting and easy.
Catherine de Baillon was a Fille du Roi sent by the king of France to marry and populate in New France. We are linked to Catherine through our Forget line:
1-Catherine DE BAILLON-3363 (about 1645-27 January 1688)
. . 2-Jean MIVILLE-3345 (5 September 1672-30 December 1711
. . . 3-Guillaume Gabriel MAINVILLE/MIVILLE-3243 (7 March 1704-10 February 1799)
. . . . 4-Catherine Miville MAINVILLE-1336 (28 October 1747-)
. . . . . 5-Marie HUPE-LAGROIX-912 (9 June 1775-2 August 1855)
. . . . . . 6-Pierre LATOUR DIT FORGET-683 (13 July 1794-27 August 1878)
. . . . . . . 7-Gilbert LATOUR DIT FORGET-674 (15 May 1825-12 July 1854)
. . . . . . . . 8-Desiré "Jerry/Jeremiah" LATOUR DIT FORGET-383 (9 Nov 1844-28 Dec 1916)
. . . . . . . . . 9-Gilbert M. FORGEA-305 (about January 1865-6 July 1925)
. . . . . . . . . . 10-Katherine Winifred "Nin" FORGEA-303 (9 March 1898-3 October 1962)
. . . . . . . . . . . 11-Irene Emma MOSSEY (22 November 1922-12 September 2007)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 12-Marjorie Anne
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-Kristofer Earl
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-Michelle Alicia
. . . . . . . . . . . 11-Anna Winifred MOSSEY (18 December 1918-1 November 2002)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 12-Carol
According to Raymond Deschenes, Miville Genealogy/Deschenes Genealogy (http://miville.com/miville4/74.html):
Catherine de Baillon, wife of Jacques Miville dit Descheses…came with a 1000 livres dowry and was considered to be born from an upper class family. Her ancestry can now be traced back to Charlemagne and the 7th century.
True to form, in an effort to become more knowledgeable of this period and these young women, I have inter-library-loaned two books to read on the subject. I am hoping to find out more specifically about the women in my family a well as the women and men, in general, who accepted this seemingly daunting path to follow. Was it forced on them? Did they consider it an adventure? Did they realize how difficult life would be when they arrived in the new world? Will we ever know?…
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