James Holcroft
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
1870 With his brother Thomas he took over the Bovereux Furnaces of Tame Iron Co, where they smelted a brand of South Staffordshire mine iron.
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]