Buffalo, Wales

[JenB]

Birth: Mary Ann Gay, 3rd q 1864, Pembroke 11a, 698

[lizdb]

1871

Penglais Lodge
Lower Vainor
Cardiganshire

Henry Gay 31 gamekeeper bn Harbuth Pembroke
Mary 30 wife bn Hestle? Castle pembroke
William 10 son bn Pembroke
Sarah 8 bn Cosharton Pembroke
Mary A 6 bn Cosharton Pembroke
Isaac 4 bn St Mary Pembroke
Elizabeth 2 bn St Mary Pembroke

[despair]

There is currently a property called Buffalo listed at 11 Windsor Place Cardiff.

Regards
Roger

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Sadly, Buffalo on Windsor Place is just a bar which opened in 2005.

Would be interested to see "Buffalo" written down in case it's a transcription error or just a bad translation from the Welsh, but can't think where it might be. And I know Cardiff well. Thinking the "Alo" bit might be Alaw as in Trealaw but can't imagine the Buff bit sorry!

[avm228]

Birth: Mary Ann Gay, 3rd q 1864, Pembroke 11a, 698

Marianne [sic] GAY, daughter of Henry (labourer) and Mary, of Ringley-wells, was baptised at Cosheston, Pembroke on 18 September 1864.

The same couple, same details, had Sarah Jane GAY baptised on 17 August 1862.

[JenB]

Would be interested to see "Buffalo" written down in case it's a transcription error or just a bad translation from the Welsh, but can't think where it might be. And I know Cardiff well.

But her birthplace in 1891 and 1871 is Pembroke Dock/Pembroke, not Cardiff.

I did suggest in reply #8 that her birthplace was actually Bufferland, which is in Pembroke Dock.

It occurs as a place-name in Pembroke Dock in the 1881 census.
Added: and in 1871

[JenB]

It definitely says Buffalo on the original 1901 image.
I suspect her husband asked where she was born, she said Bufferland and he wrote it down as Buffalo.

You can see Bufferland as a residential address on RG 10 / 5517 / 62 / 24