Hello List, I recently came across a document (on film) of Folke,1756. In it two of my wife's ancestors from Holnest are described as "Potters". Can anybody tell me what a potter's life was like in those days? Would they have used the local clay, or was special clay imported? Did they use a potter's wheel, or was all work moulded by hand? Would they have made tableware, storage jars, roofing tiles, or what? What sort of kiln did they use? Would the market have been local, or did it perhaps serve the whole county (It seems that there were quite a number of potters in Holnest)? And finally, were any occupational records kept? Was there perhaps a Potter's Guild? Regards to all, Charles Sankey, Johannesburg