“B” is for Boudo, Louis (ca. 1786-1827), and Heloise Boudo (d. 1837)

“B” is for Boudo, Louis (ca. 1786-1827), and Heloise Boudo (d. 1837). Silversmiths, goldsmiths, jewelers. Louis Boudo arrived in Charleston from Santo Domingo about 1809 and established himself as “goldsmith, jeweler and hairworker.” In addition to representing himself as a jeweler and watchmaker, he advertised the manufacture of silver spoons and other silver work. Boudo's best known piece is a silver map case made on behalf of the state of South Carolina for General Lafayette during his farewell tour of America in 1825. In 1811 Louis Boudo married Heloise Simonet. Following Louis’s death, Heloise Boudo administered his estate and continued in the manufactory of gold and silver work. She was one of the few female silversmiths in nineteenth-century century America. Louis Boudo and Heloise Boudo were among Charleston's best known and most successful antebellum silversmiths and Jewelers.