Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,713 pages of information and 247,105 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

James Holcroft

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of Brierley Hill

1817 Born in Dudley, Worcs./Kingswinford, Staffs

1841 Living by himself[1]

1851 Living in Kingswinford, iron master employing 50 men[2]

1852 Joined I Mech E, of Shut End Iron Works, near Dudley

1861 Coal and iron master and magistrate, living in Kingswinford with his sister Mary Holcroft 39, and brother Charles Holcroft, 29, a coal master[3]

1868 of Norton, near Stourbridge

1872 of Portfield Ironworks, Tipton

1881 Coal and Iron master, and JP[4], living in Upper Swinford with his sister Mary, 58[5]

1885 of Red Hill House, Stourbridge

1887 Resigned from I Mech E

1891 Coal and iron master, living in Upper Swinford with his sister Mary[6]

1894 Died in Stourbridge[7]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1841 census
  2. 1851 census
  3. 1861 census
  4. 1881 census
  5. 1881 census
  6. 1891 census
  7. BMD