Mike, I am intrigued by your message! In the absence of any other explanation could I suggest that the term bathing quarters might translate into 'seaside' and this may have been the forerunnerof the Paisley Fair Holiday Period? If this proves to be the case then your best plan would be to search out the holiday spot censuses for 1841. So far as the Ayrshire Coast is concerned you are fortunate for the Freecens Project for Ayrshire is well under way and Ayr & Prestwick are now on line at : http://www.speakeasy.org/~jgribble/ayr.html As you will see the rest are underway. It may be of course that the locations referred to are either Rothesay or Dunoon or even Arran or Millport (Cumbrae) or even Gourock or Wemyss Bay but at least its somewhere to start. Regards Duncan ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ranlinadan@aol.com> To: <SCT-RENFREW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:27 AM Subject: [Renfrew] Bathing Quarters > Hi all, > Just quick question. On my excursion through the 1841 Census for Paisley I > saw a note at the end of each E.D. That read, > > " At this season of the year many families Leave Paisley for the Bathing > Quarters and it was ascertained by the enumerator that in this district here > were absent on the night of the 6th of June ...." > > and then it went on to give the number. > > Where and what were the bathing Quarters? I've looked in Neilston, Abby, > Paisley High, Middle, Low and Abbey Paisley Parishes truing to locate my > ggg-grandparents Fleming with no luck. They were Married in Nielston, my > gg-grandfather was christened in Nielston, and the family minus my ggg-grandfather was in > Barrhead in 1851 (Mrs Fleming was listed as a widow) > Its possible I might have missed them in the 1841 Nielston census I've > got that reordered to take a second look. Different copy of the film this > time. > > Mike > > > > ==== SCT-RENFREW Mailing List ==== > ********************************************************************** > The Renfrewshire GenWeb page is at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctrfw/ > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.