The Peace family was a file making dynasty, which had seventeenth-century roots in Derbyshire (Peace, 1999). By the 1830s, one Peace branch had formed Charles & Samuel Peace & Co at Eagle Works in Russell Street, Kelham Island. In 1834, Robert Ibbotson (c.1805-1884), a representative in New York, married Anna, daughter of Martin Marshall (a saw maker, whose wife was Sarah née Peace). After the ceremony in Sheffield, ‘the happy pair left Sheffield on their way to the United States&rsq....