Le Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:42:28 -0500, "Lisa Le****e" <lle****e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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écrivait dans soc.genealogy.french:
>Re unwed mothers in New France.
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>In general, did the women raise these children,
>or were the children put up for adoption or?
>
>I ask because in Italy, it was required that the women
>give these babies up for adoption. Also, this was
>done in France. So, I'm wondering if this was the
>rule in New France as well.
You can study the families in the censuses to find out.
There is only the 1744 census that would make the job for such
a study. In the 1666, 1667 and 1681 censuses, there are too many
recent immigrants and the population born in the colony is not yet
large enough. The 1760-1765 series has no children.
While the 1744 census is limited to Quebec city, it lists all the
children so you can see whenever a family has a mother and no father
if this corresponds to an unwed mother.
I have read somewhere that Tanguay had 1% of illegitimate children in
his dictionary and Jetté had 2%. I have not completed the linking of
all families nor the identification of all the natural children in my
own database so I can't make that computation. Perhaps, someone from
PRDH can make such a search. I presume their 1744 census is linked
to their individual database.
Denis
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