Holcroft, Harwood

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21.7.1813 T & H Ht dine / 17.4.1815 H Ht dines / 29.9.1816 F & H Ht dine / 5.1.1817 H Ht, 3 nights / 3.8.1817 H Ht 2 nights / 21.12.1817 H Ht, three nights / 25.1.1818 H Ht dines / 10.5.1818 again / 19.10.1818 T & Harwood Ht call / 22.11.1818 Tho & Harwd Ht dine / 8.1.1819 T & Harwood Ht dine / 31.1.1819 T & Hd Ht dine / 12.4.1819 T & Harwood Ht dine; invités Hy Ht & John May / 15.4.1819 Mercier & Harwood Ht call / 12.7.1819 May & H Ht dine / 25.12.1819 Hd & Hy Ht dine / Hy Ht sleeps, 4 nights / 26.12.1819 C Baxter & Hd Ht dine / 14.5.1820 Harwood Ht dines; adv. Henry / 18.6.1820 Hd & Hy Ht at tea / 25.6.1820 Hd & Hy Ht & May dine / 9.7.1820 Hd & Hy Ht dine / 21.7.1820 Hy Ht dines / 22.7.1820 Hy Ht dines; goes for France / 24.9.1820 Hd Ht dines / 15.10.1820 mrs Hamilton & Hd Ht dine / 5.11.1820 Hd Ht dines / 19.11.1820 again / 25.12.1820 Jacksons & Hd Ht dine / 31.12.1820 Hd Ht au soir / 28.1.1821 Hd Ht dines / 8.2.1821 Hd Ht au soir / 4.3.1821 Hd Ht calls / 15.3.1821 again / 18.3.1821 Hd Ht dines / 25.3.1821 again / 1.4.1821 again / 19.4.1821 Hd Ht sups / 27.5.1821 Hd Ht dines / 19.8.1821 again / 30.9.1821 again / 7.10.1821 again / 4.11.1821 Hd Ht calls / 8.11.1821 again / 2.12.1821 again / 23.12.1821 Hd Ht dines / 27.12.1821 Booth at tea; adv. Hd Ht / 28.12.1821 Hd Ht sups / 27.1.1822 Hd Ht au soir / 17.2.1822 Hd Ht dines / 24.3.1822 Hd Ht at tea / 7.4.1822 Rosser sups; adv. Hd Ht / 13.5.1822 Hd Ht calls / 26.5.1822 Hd Ht sups / 2.6.1822 Hd Ht at tea / 16.6.1822 again / 4.8.1822 Hd Ht calls / 11.8.1822 again / 24.10.1822 Hd Ht sups / 24.11.1822 Hd Ht at tea / 26.11.1822 Hd Ht sups / 27.11.1822 Hd Ht dines / 23.12.1822 Hd Ht from France / 27.12.1822 Hd Ht dines / 31.12.1822 Hd Ht sups / 7.1.1823 Hd Ht dines / 11.1.1823 again / 12.1.1823 Hd Ht sups, ppc (=leavetaking) / 25.1.1832 Harwood Ht calls / 27.2.1832 (Mary Shelley) at tea; adv. Harwood Ht / 25.4.1832 (Mary Shelley) at tea; adv. Harwood Ht, ppc (= leavetaking)

Son of Thomas Holcroft by his fourth wife Louisa, he was born 1.9.1804. In 1832 he arrived in New York, age 28, printer. Had perhaps learnt the trade with his uncle Charles Mercier. I guess the H Ht entries up to 1818 were Harwood rather than his brother Henry who was 2 years younger, but the 1819 H Ht was more likely Henry because of presence of John May, previously invited with him.