Author talk:Richard Holcraft

Sources

Published work is definitely Holcraft, though wonder whether many records of the time may list as Holcroft, or modern transcriptions may be that way. Work also says "B.A." and it is not in alumni register for Cambridge or Oxford under either spelling. Not in Uni of London registers of deaths to 1890, though that started 1836 so not really a target. As the third "Uni" in England started circa 1826, one then looks to Glasgow (no), Edinburgh, and Dublin no.

Otherwise need to start to look to the European universities.

No hits for Holcraft in newspapers through Gale Primary Sources, incl. The Times. — billinghurst sDrewth 08:17, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

Richard Holcraft dying 1860

• burial Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester, England

Name: Richard Holcraft
Age: 76
Abode: Failsworth
Burial Date: 19 Aug 1860
Burial Place: Cheetham, St Luke, Lancashire, England
Parish as it Appears: Cheetham, St Luke
Reference Number: GB127.M339/1/3/1

• Findagrave

Richard Holcroft
Birth unknown
Death 15 Aug
Burial St Luke's ChurchyardCheetham Hill, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Memorial ID 189234481

• death FreeBMD (def. Holcroft)

Name: Richard Holcroft
Death Registration Place: Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Death Date: Sep 1860
Volume: 8d
Page: 210

• marriage; Anglican Parish Registers. Manchester (def. Holcroft)

Name: Richard Holcroft, Gentleman, widower
Marriage Date: 21 Jan 1839
Parish: Manchester, St Mary, St Denys and St George
Father's Name: Richard Holcroft, draper
Spouse's Name: Sarah Smith
Spouse's Father's Name: Jonathan Atherton
Archive Roll: 704

=> for this latter there is 1802 apprentice paperwork for a Richard Holcroft

1824?

WorldCat lists the first edition of Holcraft's book (Tales from the German) as 1826, but this article lists 1824 in the description and also as the date of Tales of Humour and Romance (the 1829 reprint). Are there any sources that give 1824 as the year he first published? --Yodin^T 03:52, 17 October 2023 (UTC)