Individual Details

Filles du Roi / King's Daughters
1671. Tanguay claims that she was the daugher of Sébastien and Marie Beauregard who married in Nov. 1665. It is an error. The origins of Marie Langelier, AKA Angelier, are unknown.

Matriarch of the Rochereau Family in New France
Marie Angélier was born around 1651 in the historic parish of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, located in the heart of Paris, France.[¹] Her early life unfolded during a time of significant social and economic upheaval in France, a context that led thousands of women like her to seek new beginnings in the burgeoning colony of New France.
Marie was one of the approximately 800 women known as the Filles du Roi (Daughters of the King)—young women sponsored by King Louis XIV to immigrate to Canada between 1663 and 1673. These women were provided with a royal dowry and support to encourage settlement, marriage, and family formation in the sparsely populated colony. Marie’s journey, like that of many Filles du Roi, required great courage, as she left behind the security of France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic.[²]
Shortly after her arrival in the colony, Marie married Vivien Rochereau on 13 October 1670 in the parish of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, near Trois-Rivières.[³] Vivien, also of French origin, had arrived in the colony as part of the wave of male settlers and soldiers who preceded the Filles du Roi. Their union was one of many that helped solidify the population base of New France and contribute to its permanent settlement.
The couple eventually settled in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, a developing parish along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, between Trois-Rivières and Québec. There, they raised a family and played a formative role in the development of rural communities vital to the economic and spiritual life of the colony.[⁴]
Marie was last documented alive on 30 November 1709, when records place her in Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade. She was likely in her late fifties at that time. Though her exact date of death is unknown, her legacy as a pioneering woman of New France endures through the lives of her descendants.[⁵]
As a Fille du Roi, wife, and mother, Marie Angélier exemplifies the strength, resilience, and determination of the women who helped lay the foundation of French Canada. Her story is one of sacrifice and courage, and her name continues to hold a place of honor in the genealogies of Québec and beyond.
Sources & Notes:
1. Fichier Origine, entry for Marie Angélier; parish archives of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, Paris, France.
2. Yves Landry, Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle, Leméac/Septentrion, 1992.
3. Marriage record: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, 13 October 1670, Drouin Collection, Library and Archives Canada.
4. Trudel, Marcel. Initiation à la Nouvelle-France, Boréal, 1997.
5. Notarial or parish reference to Marie Angélier, Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, 30 November 1709.

Birth	Abt 1651	Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois in Paris, France
Marriage	13 Oct 1670	Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec, Canada - Vivien Rochereau
Naturalization	1671	Canada
Death	Aft 30 Nov 1709	Ste-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Québec, Canada
Reference No		C137

Spouse	Vivien Rochereau (1641 - 1716)
Child	Antoine Rochereau (1673 - 1731)
Child	Joseph Rochereau (1685 - 1736)
Child	Jacques Rocheleau (1686 - 1746)
Child	Madeleine Rochereau (1690 - )