The Bauduy family was associated with the prominent du Pont family, who immigrated to the United States from France in 1802 and established the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, which manufactured gunpowder at mills on the banks of the Brandywine River just north of Wilmington, Delaware. Peter Bauduy (1769-1833), a French refugee from Santo Domingo who was a partner of Eleuthère Irénée "E.I." du Pont (1771-1834). Bauduy's son Ferdinand Bauduy (1781-1814) married du Pont's daughter Victorine du Pont (1782-1861). Peter Bauduy, his wife Thèrése Jeanne Julienne "Juliette" des Chapelles (1773-1837), and their family had moved to Cuba in 1819.

Eulalia Keating (1801-1873) of Wilmington and Philadelphia was the daughter of John Keating (1760-1856) and Eulalia Bretton des Chapelles (1774-1803), 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, Maryland, 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.

Hélène Bauduy (1806-1881) was the daughter of Peter and Juliette Bauduy. She married Alexandre Aristide Bretton de Chapelles (1799-1850) in 1823. They lived in Cuba on the sugar plantation Eden Park, the same given to the Bauduy's home in Wilmington.