place or house name ?

[tac]

have a family in the 1901 census,the address given is cantref,can any one tell me is this a place in cyfoeth y brenin
or a house name.
                            thank you
                                     tac

[osprey]

Is it definitely Cantref? Cartref means home and is a very common housename.  Cantref is hundred and doesn't seem to make much sense as a housename. If you have a look at the Genuki page for Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, there's a list of villages within Cyfoeth-y-Brenin and neither Cantref nor Cartref appears there.

 

[tac]

hi osprey,
                 in the 1901 census,    hugh and margert rees are living there,and the address is cartref and not cantref.
sorry for the mistake.
                               regards
                                      tac

[osprey]

No problem! Definitely a house name then! 

[tac]

do you know if this is in the high st,borth.
 its very hard to pinpoint places with just a house name
                                                                         regards
                                                                            tac

[osprey]

Sorry, can't help you there. What you could do is look at the enumerator's description of the area, you might be able to work it out. If you're using Ancestry for Wales, look at the bottom of the main search page, click on Cardiganshire, then on Cyfoeth y Brenin and there's the census itself and the enumerator's view of the district, but on the 1901, the descriptions are in a different place.

In the paragraph underneath About 1901 Wales Census, click on click here, then click on Cardiganshire as above. Never noticed that about the 1901 before - odd! 

[tac]

thank you osprey
i have asked the kind person who looked it up for me to send me the page,to see if i can glean any thing from it
                                                                      regards
                                                                              tac

[osprey]

Sorry, didn't realise you don't have access to 1901. I'll give you what it says in the enumerator's description
RG13/5155 Cyfoeth y Brenin enumeration district 7
The whole of the village of Borth(except nos 1,2,3 4 in the Cambrian Tce, the Borth Railway Station, and Refreshment Room) Carron House Borth, Nos 1,2,3 St Alban's Villas Upper Borth, the whole of the villages of Upper Borth and Gwastad, Pengoitan(?) and Gwastad Farms and Upper Borth School.

The page that has Cartref on it also has Cambridge Place, Britannia Place, London Place, Ocean Place and Florence Place. So either very short roads or big houses divided up. Do you have an map of Borth for the time?  Did find an Osprey House not far away though. 

[tac]

thanks osprey,
thanks for the info. no i dont have a map,and the person who found the people in the census is going to send me the page.
it will be interesting to see. did you have rellies there then at osprey house
                                thanks for your help
                                                                tac