Bream, Samuel

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; cabinet and chair maker (fl. 1774–1807)

Addresses given at the ‘Tea-Chest’, Charlotte Street in 1776; Blind Middle Street, 1779–80; and near the New Hall on the Quay, 1780–87.

Advertised in Norfolk Chronicle, 10 August 1776, ‘that he has now finish'd several Pieces of elegant Inlaid Furniture, (which is now the Taste in London) and proposes to sell them at a much lower Price, than Goods of the same Quality are usually sold there’ [Conn., June 1956; Symonds, Furniture-making in 17th and 18th Century England, p. 131].

Announced his removal from Charlotte Street to the Quay in Norfolk Chronicle, 18 March 1780.

Purchased out Sun Insurance policies in 1779 for £1,100, £640 accounting for utensils, stock and warehouse; in 1780 for £1,300, £470 on utensils and workshops; on 20 April 1787 for £1,000 on household goods, stock, warehouse and utensils; on 10 February 1791 for £200; and on 17 July 1792 for £550 on utensils and stock in workshop and woodyard [The London Archives (TLA), Sun MS vol. 273, p. 590; vol. 283, p. 41; vol. 344, p. 497; vol. 375, p. 426; vol. 388, p. 300].

Former apprentices admitted freemen: Jacob Furrance, 1774; Samuel Crisp, 1777; John Browne, 1780; Richard Baxfield, 1783; and Edmund Stolworthy, cabinet maker, London, 1796.

Subscribed to Sheraton's Drawing Book, 1793. [D; poll bks; Gt Yarmouth freemen's calendar] There may have been two Samuel Breams snr and jnr.

Source: DEFM