Henry Bramall (1828-1886) was the eldest son of Joseph and his wife, Elizabeth née Dickinson.  At Oughtibridge and Worral, near Sheffield, the Bramalls had interests in farming and ganister mining, and also operated a small file factory known as Birtin Works.  Henry, who was trained as a file maker, eventually took over Birtin Works.  The farrier’s knife in the Hawley Collection was probably factored – in other words, made by a local cutler in Oughtibridge, or more likely a firm in Sheffield – and stamped with Henry Bramall’s name.  In 1881, Henry married Catherine Hudson, but she died in the same year.  Two years later, Henry married Jane Mountford, but it proved an unhappy relationship.  On 9 March 1886, Jane found Henry hanging from a clothes line in the kitchen.  On the kitchen table was a note: ‘Jane you have charged me with being intimate with my own daughter, and still keep persisting in it.  As I am going to meet my Maker, I declare, as I have done before, there is no truth in it’ (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 10 March 1886).  The inquest returned an open verdict.  The family moved to Hillsborough in the early 1890s.  Until the 1950s, Henry Bramall & Sons was listed at Birtin Works, Henry Street, as a file and steel maker.  Business records relating to Bramall’s are lodged at Sheffield Archives and Kelham Island Museum.