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VICTORINE THERESE NANCY VERNIER BOUNY

Victorine Therese Nancy Vernier Bouny was born in Jamaica in 1799 and came to New Orleans with her husband, Barthelemy Bouny, following their 1821 marriage in Cuba. Barthelemy operated a successful bakery on Chartres Street, and after his death in 1845, the business was continued under the name of Widow N. Bouny. In the 1860 census she is listed with a bakery, real estate worth $20,000, and $1200 in personal property.

Advertisement for the Bouny bakery from 1858. Mrs. Bouny apparently purchased the property after her husband’s death (Conde Street became Chartres in 1852; sometime later, the address changed from 59 to 231).

(A. Mygatt & Co. New Orleans Business Directory, 1858, 1857)
This advertisement for the sale of Mrs. Bouny’s bakery appeared in the Daily Picayune on August 31, 1871. She completed the sale in the following year. The old bakery building is still standing at 921 Chartres, now a multi-unit condominium complex.