Bauduy family.

The Bauduy family was associated with the du Pont family beginning with Peter Bauduy (1769?-1833), a French refugee from Santo Domingo who was a partner of E.I du Pont. Bauduy's son Ferdinand married du Pont's daughter Victorine. Peter Bauduy, his wife Thèrése Jeanne Julienne ("Juliette") des Chapelles Bauduy, and their family had moved to Cuba by the 1820s.

Eulalia Keating (1801-1873) of Wilmington and Philadelphia was the daughter of John Keating and Eulalia Bretton des Chapelles Keating, the sister of Juliette Bauduy. She married her cousin Jerome Keating (1792-1833) in 1818, and they had three children who survived to adulthood. In 1844, Eulalia Keating entered the Visitation Convent at Frederick, Md., and became known as Mother Mary Joseph.

Their daughter Amelia Keating (1820-1886) married Peter Bauduy, Jr. (1816-1856). The couple resided on a coffee plantation, Eden Park, near Matanzas, Cuba. After her husband's death in 1856, Amelia Keating Bauduy entered the Carmelite order and became known as Mother Ignatius.