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The mystery word is familiar to me as some of my Vaughan family lived there in 1830s and later.
To quote from my [unpublished!] family history: "The locality of Nant-y-ceisiad ST 202 891 lies above the present east-west road, A468; it takes its name from the brook (Nant) that ran down to the Rhymney River".
 ST 202 891 is the Ordnance Survey map reference.
I don't think the enumerator would have been a non-Welshspeaker - just that the name had/has a few variations possible in Monmouthshire Welsh dialect.
Pob hwyl ~ Phil

Looks like we're hanging off the same family tree - all the data you posted is familiar to me. Are you the Mr Spencer who has a tree posted on Ancestry? If so, maybe I could offer a few new leads ,and some amendments based on my sixty-one years' research [now culminating in a book 'Three Centuries of the Vaughans' in 15 chapters!]
Cheers Philip Vaughan [philvn1@btinternet.com]

Thank you again Valda, for your efforts in sorting this one out.
The vicar of Shere was not Arthur [as you have it], but Frederick Charles Hill. Although Arthur's last residence was in the parish of Sonning, it was reported in the Reading Standard of 20.2.1909 - in a very full report - describes Arthur's funeral at Shere, with the Rev F C Hill officiating. It recounts that his wife [died 1901] was buried 'there', and in adjacent graves were their sons Arthur William Hill, died 1896, and [the Rev. Harry] Ernest Hill, died 1906.  We know that there is, in St James', a large memorial window to Mrs Hill - so where are these graves?  The R. Standard was capable of getting facts wrong, e.g. it states "St Paul's Church, Shere" which it  equates with "Gomshall" in an ambiguous way; but we know from other sources that the Rev F C Hill was vicar at St James', not "St Paul's".  Yes, I must get down to Shere and look at the graves for myself - do you know if it is open to visit at all times?

Many thanks Valda for your quick response to my enquiry. I had already found these details [and more] on Arthur Hill - my aim was, as I hoped to have made clear, to find more on his descendants in the next generation or two.
My reference to 'Gomshall cemetery' was taken from the contemporary newspaper account of the funeral of Mrs Harriet Hill and, later, a brother of The Rev. Fred. - I don't know the locality.
Perhaps someone living more locally can find gravestones for the Hill family around 1900-1920 at one of St James' churchyards, or else I shall need to come and hunt myself.  Any offers please?
~ Phil