GUEST: 2145 (I use military time, as it is clearer)

I don't believe that my paternal grandparents lived in "abject poverty" and I'm not sure how you would interpolate that from my post. It is probably true (based on my limited knowledge of events that happened before my birth) that my mother's family was somewhat better off financially than my father's family. But I don't know what your point is, if any. As for your alleged poverty of Swansea, again, I have no idea of what it may have been like in 1900.