| 4 gallon saltglaze brownware flagon. |   |
| Impressed:
417 / I & I ABRAHAM / 32 KING ST QUEEN SQUARE / BRISTOL. Potter: not marked. |
| 4 gallon flagon. |   |
| Impressed:
3703 / I & I ABRAHAM / Coopers Hall / BRISTOL. Potter: not marked but glaze style suggests Yabbicom. |
| 4 gallon stoneware flagon. |   |
| Impressed:
4 / JOSEPH ABRAHAM / Coopers Hall / King St / BRISTOL. Number: 6453. Potter:Price + Bristol, 2 tone glaze jolly-bodied jar. |
| 2 gallon stoneware flagon. |  |
| Impressed:
JOSEPH ABRAHAM / Coopers Hall / King Street / BRISTOL. Number: 5794. Potter:Price + Bristol, 2 tone glaze jolly-bodied jar. "2" opposite potters mark. |
Joseph Abraham was of Jewish descent, born in Frome, Somerset sometime around 1815. His father was Moses Abraham of London, and mother Esther Ketz. John Abraham was his elder brother, a wine merchant living at 6, Queen’s parade, St. Augustine’s, Bristol in 1851, and also born in Frome around 1804. In 1841 Joseph was a Wine and Spirit Merchant living at 20 King’s Square, St. James, Bristol. By 1851 his 79 year-old father was living next door at number 19. The company of John and Joseph Abraham were trading at 32 King street, Queen’s square, from at least 1841. By 1850 Joseph Abraham appears on the deeds for Cooper’s Hall in King street. Cooper's Hall occupied part of the site of what is now Bristol Old Vic theatre.
Joseph married Jane Wolff at the London registry office 30 April 1843.
John died on 14 July 1856 at Bedford-villa, Richmond-hill, Clifton and Joseph carried on the business in his own name.
Joseph was the first Jewish mayor of the city, obtaining that office in 1865.
Joseph Abraham died at Stratford House, Tyndall’s Park, Clifton, on 30 January 1867. He was buried in Ridgeway cemetery, Fishponds. Immediately after the death of Joseph, the business was managed successfully by George Crook, who had been in their employ for some time. George Crook died on 1 January 1874. Joseph’s son John, born in 1854 was assistant wine merchant by 1871 under George Crook, and later took on the running of the company in 1874. At age 23, on 14 March 1877 he was initiated into the United Grand Lodge of England at Bristol, when he was resident at Cooper’s Hall, but he did not seem to have his father or uncle’s aptitude for business, by October 1885 he was declared bankrupt with debts of over £19,000, and according to a statement by the official receiver at the creditors meeting, was last seen on a ship named the Sarmatian bound for Quebec, leaving a considerable legal mess behind him. It appears that not long before leaving England, John fell in love with a woman named Edith Kay (otherwise Edith Kate) Everett, from Norfolk. She already had two sons, born in Great Yarmouth. The sons, in 1891, were living with Edith's father, a grocer in Great Yarmouth. Edith's mother Harriet Everett had divorced Edith's father in 1867 and had taken the license of the Ship public house, Hanover street and Denmark street, Bristol, on 18 April 1883 and had moved there with Edith, this seems as though it was part of John Abraham's estate, and was sold in 1885. It is likely where John and Edith met. Edith herself took the license of the King's Arms, Clifton Place, on 11 March 1885 (until 13 January 1886 when it passed to George Henry Lewin), her mother Harriet relinquished the Ship at the March 1885 sessions and returned to Norfolk. It is likely that January 1886 is when Edith travelled to join John. John and Edith changed their surname to Andrews on arrival in Canada, they had another son, Henry John Andrews, on 18 February 1886. Edith claimed that at first, after emigrating, the family lived in Port Huron, Michigan, and this is where their son was born. They moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana shortly thereafter, where they managed the R. L. Polk Directory. John met his demise in 1901 at the Richmond Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana, he had suffered mentally for about a year. Edith, former Fort Wayne resident, died in December 1939 in St. Ann's Hospital, Techney, Illinois, following 2 years illness.