 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Cockerill akatanga basa muVerviers, pedyo neLiège, muna 1799. Basa rake raibatanidza kugadzirwa kwemichina yekuruka uye kugadzira mvere dzemakwai zvefemu Simonis et Biolley, inotungamirwa naIwan Simonis nehanzvadzi yake Marie Anne Simonis. Ipapo akaunza mhuri yake kubva kuEngland ndokugara muBelgium. Nharaunda yacho yaiva chikamu cheFrench Republic panguva yeFrench Revolutionary Wars, asi ikoku hakuna kutapura rombo roupfumi raCockerill. Akabatanidzwa muna 1802 naJames Holden uyo pakutanga akashanda kwaari semubatsiri uye gare gare akatanga bhizinesi rake. 