Ebenezer Stacey (1800-1859) was the son of John Stacey and Hannah née Vickers.  (Hannah, the daughter of John Vickers, had married John Stacey in 1781.)  Ebenezer’s wife was Elizabeth and they had five sons: William Turton (1822-1884), Joseph (1823-1837), James Vickers (1828-1873), Frederick (1835-1902), and John Vickers (1837-1909).  After Elizabeth’s death in 1851, aged 55, Ebenezer later that year married Ann née Summers (d. 1875, aged 68).

Ebenezer was a saw handle manufacturer, but when John Vickers retired in 1836, Ebenezer joined a partnership to run the Britannia metal business at Britannia Place, Garden Street.  Ebenezer’s co-partners were George Shortried Rutherford, Elijah West, and John Vickers Stacey (1794-1867).  The latter was apparently Ebenezer’s brother (Sheffield Independent, 14 June 1867).   John withdrew in 1841 and the firm became Rutherford, Stacey, West & Co.  It advertised in 1839.  Soon Ebenezer took over the enterprise completely.  In 1841, Stacey was living in Broomhall Street with his wife, Elizabeth, and sons William, James, Frederick, and John.  In the Census (1851), he was a Britannia metal ware manufacturer at 40 Garden Street.   The premises adjoined the former Vickers’ workshops, so Stacey retained the name Britannia Place.   The firm’s speciality – Britannia ware – was later superseded by electro-plated goods, which it marketed from about 1860.  ‘E S & S’ was stamped on its electro-plate.   Ebenezer Stacey died, aged 59, at York on 6 May 1859, ‘after a few hours’ illness of apoplexy, whilst on a journey’.   He was buried in the General Cemetery.  His eldest son, William Turton Stacey, had briefly joined the business, but later established a music shop in High Street.  He died a bankrupt and ‘broken down old man’ on 30 November 1884, aged 62 (Sheffield Independent, 2 December 1884).   Frederick became a bank manager.  In the early 1860s, therefore, James Vickers Stacey and John Vickers Stacey operated Ebenezer Stacey & Sons.  The former lived at Claremont Villa, Claremont Crescent; the latter at Collegiate Cottage, Glossop Road.  

James Vickers Stacey died in Newcastle on Tyne on 13 February 1873, aged 45, leaving under £2,000.   His wife had predeceased him at the same age in 1871.  They were buried in the General Cemetery.   John Vickers Stacey took over and until 1888 was partnered by William Turton Stacey’s son, Arthur John Stacey (1855-1906).   The workforce grew from ten workers in 1861 to 23 in 1881 (eight men, six women, six boys, and three girls).  John Vickers Stacey died on 10 February 1909 and was buried in the General Cemetery.  By 1905, James Furniss (1875-1940) and the brothers Albert Harry Hodges (1869-1951) and Arthur John Hodges (1876-1934) were the directors.  The Hodges’ family had worked for Stacey’s since the 1850s.  William Hodges (1841-1905) had become the firm’s electro-plate manager.  A Wesleyan, who attended Carver Street Chapel, his funeral at Burngreave was well-covered in the press (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 19 January 1905).  

After the First World War, Albert and Arthur Hodges relocated from Garden Street to Fitzwilliam Street.  The business struggled in the Slump and was in debt.  Arthur suffered from longstanding depression, due to ‘head pains and financial anxiety’ (Sheffield Independent, 5 Mary 1934).  On 3 May 1934, he stayed late at the office at 20 Fitzwilliam Street and ended his life by swallowing cyanide.  He left £245.  The business was wound up.