George’s wife Amelia died in Bath in 1890 at 6 George Street and is buried in the Unitarian cemetery. George Braham formed a partnership around 1833 with his elder brother John, to establish an optician’s business in Bath. For the next two decades, advertisements and trade directory entries from both John and George often listed addresses in Bristol and Bath. However, neither brother’s advertisements and directory entries mentions the other brother.
When the partnership was dissolved in 1852, the London Gazette described it as ‘Braham Brothers’. That partnership is not to be confused with the Braham Brothers of Bath whose name appears on microscopes, slides, and other apparatus - that business was a partnership between George Braham’s sons in the later 1800s.
From the National Probate Calendar 1866: 5 Feb - The Will of George Isaac Braham late of 6 George-street in the City of Bath Optician deceased who died 20 December 1865 at 6 George- str aforesaid was proved at Bristol by the oaths of Amelia Braham of 6 George-street aforesaid Widow the Relict and Philip Braham of 27 Charlewood Street Pimlico in the County of Middlesex Engineer the Son the Executors. Effects under £4,000.
Children
David: in the 1871 census at 4 Vale View Place, Walcot, Bath: David Braham, aged 26, unmarried, manufacturing optician, born at Bath, Amelia Braham, aged 57, widow, mother, derive[s] income from house property, born at Doncaster, and a servant. In the 1881 census at Fiddington House, West Lavington (Wilts): David Braham, aged 36, unmarried, patient, optician, lunatic. Death aged 40 was registered 1884/Q3 Scarborough.
Philip: in the 1891 census at 6 Green Park, Bath: Philip Braham, aged 47, optician, born at Bath, wife Louisa (née Brown), aged 27, born at Liverpool, children: Paul, aged 5, born at Bath, and George Noel, aged 4, born at Bath, Mary S Paul, aged 63, married, mother-in-law, living on own means, born at Southwark, London, a governess and three servants. In the 1901 census at 18 Leigh St, St Pancras, London: Phillip Braham, aged 52, married, engineer mechanical & electrical, born at Bath, and son Paul, aged 15, commercial clerk, born at Bath. Death aged 60, was registered 1904/Q2 St Pancras.
James: James moved to Birmingham with his wife Sarah where he worked as an optician’s assistant. By 1891 they were living in London where James died in 1920.