Not quite a carpenter but not far off.. I've seen an advert in 1801 looking for hoop makers to make rind hoops in Romsey. It could explain why my man moved to a new place, but what was a rind hoop, and what did it become part of?
This is the advert. It has a second paragraph about a lime kiln, which makes me think they might be making something else, although I don't understand what it means
A lime kiln was probably needed to bend to hoops to make them circular.--going by my Father's boat refurbishing times. He used lime to bow the timbers to fit the the boat's line. Sorry not really with it today, lack of sleep. edit then again I have a long line of 'hoop benders' never gave thought to lime as they seemed to heat & bend iron around the Kegs.
As I understand it they used steam to bend the wood. But this sounds like details of something else to me, although I have no idea if the reference to the wharf has anything to do with it
Just found that the bark of the birch is called the rind. Could it be that the hoops were made of birch rind for the barrels of lime?
FMP has a newspaper item from 1815 about an insolvent debtor Richard Webb, brick burner, Toothill. I can only view a snippet. Maybe hoops or barrels were involved in the brick burning process somehow.
Not that it answers the question, but Richard placed another advert in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal of the 3rd January 1814, just for 'Hoop-Makers' - and then another in the Hampshire Chronicle of the 23rd February 1918 Apologies if you've already found them
It may be that Richard Webb also had a kiln for lime as well as one for brick burning (Or maybe the same kiln used for both?) From my general googling - the limestone would be taken from the wharf to the kiln. I think the quick lime produced from the firing would need to be put in barrels to be transported - and the barrels would need hoops. Well, it's a theory anyway. Happy to be proved wrong!
