- Name: James Peatfield
- Birth: 18-APR-1803 in: Basford, Nottinghamshire, England
- Death:
- Father: Joseph Peatfield
- Mother: Jane UNKNOWN
Notes: New England Lace and Stocking Manufacture, 1822-1837
Conventional accounts claim the first machine-made stockings in Ipswich were those of British lacemen on a hand frame smuggled to this country by George Warner and Benjamin Fewkes.9 In fact, knitted stockings were one of the regular products of th e town's lace factories-old houses used for manufacturing and as housing for the British-born superintendent and his family. Contemporary accounts, visitors to the lace factories, and a memoir of James Peatfield - an emigre machinist from Nottingh amshire turned knit-goods manufacturer - tell the same story. Besides lace machines for making bobbinet, Ipswich's hand-powered lace shops also held several framework knitting machines. One visitor saw "three stocking frames, 16 inches wide, 26 , 30, and 32 gage, and one 80 [inches] wide, for making half-hose, two at once," while James Peatfield recalled a Scotch frame he set up for Robert Johnston to make "silk Military Sashes" for Massachusetts militia officers.
- Married: 02-OCT-1834 in: Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
- Name: Susan Heard
- Birth: in: Massachusetts, USA
- Death: Bef 1880 in: Massachusetts, USA
- Father:
- Mother:
Notes: Nathaniel Herd, aged 76 in 1840, was living with James and Susan. Was he father or uncle or grandfather to Susan?
Other Spouses
Children
- Hannah Moore Peatfield, b. 05-JUN-1836 in: Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
- Margaret Fox Peatfield, b. 09-JAN-1838 in: Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
