Below are some resources I recommend if any of your ancestors in your family tree were coopers.

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Description: Someone who makes wooden vessels bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples include casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers. Traditionally there were four divisions in the cooper's craft. The "dry" or "slack" cooper made containers that would be used to ship dry goods such as cereals, nails, tobacco, fruits and vegetables. The "drytight" cooper made casks designed to keep dry goods in and moisture out. Gunpowder and flour casks are examples of a "drytight" cooper's work. The "white cooper" made straight staved containers like washtubs, buckets and butter churns, that would hold water and other liquids, but did not allow shipping of the liquids. Usually there was no bending of wood involved in white cooperage. The "wet" or "tight" cooper made casks for long term storage and transportation of liquids that could even be under pressure, as with beer.

Websites:

The Worshipful Company of Coopers

Reading materials:

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