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Family and Education
1st. s. of John Holcroft of Holcroft, and Anne, da. of Peter Heywood of Heywood, Lancs.Bodl. Dodsworth 108, f. 121v; Lancs. RO, DP/397/25/2; J.P. Rylands, Notes on the Fam. of Holcroft (Leigh, 1877), 15. m. lic. 10 Aug. 1621, Margaret (bur. 26 Mar. 1676), da. and coh. of John Hunt of Manchester, Lancs., 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 9da. (at least 1 d.v.p.).Bodl. Dodsworth 108, f. 121v; Rylands, Fam. of Holcroft, 16-17; Archdeaconry of Chester Mar. Lics. ed. W.F. Irvine (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lvi), 141; Cathedral Church of Manchester ed. H. Brierley (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. lv), 83, 92; Ormskirk ed. T. Williams (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xcviii), 16, 19, 22, 26, 139; Newchurch ed. W.J. Kaye, E.W.W. Kaye (Lancs. Par. Reg. Soc. xxii), 8, 151, 216, 217. suc. fa.?; bur. 22 Apr. 1656 22 Apr. 1656.Newchurch ed. Kaye, Kaye, 150.
Offices Held

Local: capt. militia ft. Lancs. by 1634–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168; Lancs. RO, DDN/1/64, f. 112. J.p. 15 Aug. 1638–11 July 1642, 4 Oct. 1647–2 Aug. 1652.Lancs. RO, QSC/30–6, 48–52. Dep. lt. by July 1642-aft. Nov. 1644.Wigan Archives Service, D/D An/Bundle 16/12; Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 21; Gratton, Lancs. 79; Chandler, Liverpool, 327. Member, Lancs. co. cttee. c.1642–29 Aug. 1645, by Apr. 1647-c.1650.Gratton, Lancs. 83, 98–9; Lancs. Royalist Composition Pprs. ed. J.H. Stanning (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xxvi), 27. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648.A. and O.

Civic: freeman, Wigan by Mar. 1640–?d.Sinclair, Wigan, i. 216; ii. 7. Mayor, Liverpool 6 Nov. 1644–18 Oct. 1645;G. Chandler, Liverpool, 327, 341. alderman by 3 Jan. 1645–d.Chandler, Liverpool, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2, 51.

Military: capt. of ft. (parlian.) July 1642 – bef.Mar. 1643; lt.-col. by Mar. 1643-bef. Jan. 1644;Lancs. Civil War Tracts, 30, 85. col. by Jan. 1644–29 Aug. 1645.SP28/12, f. 40; A. and O. i. 761; Gratton, Lancs. 99. Gov. Lancaster Castle by Mar. 1643-bef. Sept. 1645.Infra, ‘William West’; CSP Dom. 1656–7, p. 258.

Central: member, cttee. for plundered ministers, 27 Dec. 1647.CJ v. 407a.

Parlimentarian
HOLCROFTE, John (d. 1656), of Holcroft, Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.
: Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOLCROFTE, John (d. 1656), of Holcroft, Newchurch in Culcheth, Lancs.

Will
not found.
Estates
in 1623, ‘John Holcroft of Limehurst’ purchased an estate at nearby Nuthurst, Lancs. for £1,970, which he sold for the same sum in 1627.Local Gleanings rel. to Lancs. and Cheshire, ii. 149. In 1648, Holcrofte’s estate inc. capital messuages and demesnes of Great Woolden, Holcroft and Peasfurlong and property in Atherton, Cadishead, Culcheth, Great and Little Woolden, Holcroft, Peasfurlong and Risley, Lancs.Lancs. RO, DDX/75/117. 
Oxford 1644
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Addresses
Mr Heywood’s house near Westminster (1642).HMC 5th Rep. 27.
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