Lynda, Take a look at http://www.google.com . Over 350,000 sites for Bath, the Roman spa and tourist area. Also: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/bathbaths/bathbaths.html has lovely pictures of the baths. Colin, Will send you details of my family. I don't think they were of the social group to go to the spa for relaxation. David JENKINS was an Iron Plate Worker in Birmingham in 1881. Regards, Dawn ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynda Lindsey <linda1@zebra.net> To: <JENKINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:58 PM Subject: Re: JENKINS in Bath UK > could you please tell me what or where Bath is? > this is a whole new thing for me with this. > > Lynda > At 03:57 PM 01/15/2001 -0500, Colin Carlin wrote: > >Dawn and Howard > > > >While your Jenkins may well have come from Bath it sounds as though they > >were > >highly mobile so they may have belonged to the social group that used Bath > >as a spa or holiday town. > >This is more likely if they lived in inner London and Birmingham both very > >polluted > >and smokey in winter. > >Thus families came to Bath for quite long periods in winter taking or > >renting sets of rooms. > >Thus the Bath connection may be slight. > >They may have worked with the Railways or some other Service like the > >Revenue or Excise that posted families around the county. > >If you let me have details I will have a look when next I go to the > >Library. ( in some weeks) > >Colin Carlin, Bath > > > > > >