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The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging Frenchmen to move ...
Pages in category "International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Established in New York City, New York in 1886 with a membership of ten founding women who were active with Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches in the area, the International Order of The King's Daughters and Sons held its first meeting on January 13 of that year at the New York City home of Margaret McDonald Bottome (1825–1906), a leader in the Methodist church who had become ...
Contemporary engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World. A casquette girl (French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry.
The Order of the Daughters of the King is an Anglican lay religious order for women founded in New York City in 1885. It is a sister organization to the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, [1] a comparable men's organization affiliated with the Episcopal Church. Its constitution was said to be a close copy of that of the Brotherhood. [2]
Pages in category "Daughters of kings" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,246 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Her daughters Mary and Elizabeth wear gold-coloured bodices and petticoats, 1640. Portrait of Henrietta Maria in the style of Van Dyck shows her in a flame-colored satin gown without a collar or kerchief. She wears a fur piece draped over her shoulder, 1640. Agatha Bas wears a pointed stomacher under a front-lacing, high-waisted black gown. Her ...
In 1883, Peterkin helped found the first Virginia circle (chapter) of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, a Christian charitable organization.Six years later, after she convinced the owner of a local boarding house (a mansion before the war) to allow the organization to use the building rent-free and a physician to donate his services.