Yes, it seems patently obvious that Joe Fleming aka James Evans has to be the son of Henrietta (otherwise, what on earth was she doing claiming the poor so and so as her son in the asylum?).
A word on censuses, though (from someone currently working on the development of the damned thing here in Qatar, where things seem closer to 1881 in all things census if nothing else)...they can take longer than the day that is intended to provide the snapshot current censuses aim for, particularly when you have enumerators going round door to door (as guidance, the one planned for here will use 1000 enumerators for a population of 1.3 million, and will take a little under a month). So migration within that period is perfectly possible, although it's worth checking the date(s) on the top of the enumerators' forms to see what the discrepancy is, if any, between the workhouse census date and that from Crozier T. Secondly, all that is required, and all that has been required, is for the householder to provide any data requested...if Mr Fleming had been in the workhouse in previous weeks, and records had not been updated, I'd imagine that all that would have happened was the enumerator was given a list of names, and no one would check who was still there. So, it's not impossible that the two apparently distinct fellows that Fisherman mentions are, in fact, one person.
Which is an idea that I like quite a lot.
A word on censuses, though (from someone currently working on the development of the damned thing here in Qatar, where things seem closer to 1881 in all things census if nothing else)...they can take longer than the day that is intended to provide the snapshot current censuses aim for, particularly when you have enumerators going round door to door (as guidance, the one planned for here will use 1000 enumerators for a population of 1.3 million, and will take a little under a month). So migration within that period is perfectly possible, although it's worth checking the date(s) on the top of the enumerators' forms to see what the discrepancy is, if any, between the workhouse census date and that from Crozier T. Secondly, all that is required, and all that has been required, is for the householder to provide any data requested...if Mr Fleming had been in the workhouse in previous weeks, and records had not been updated, I'd imagine that all that would have happened was the enumerator was given a list of names, and no one would check who was still there. So, it's not impossible that the two apparently distinct fellows that Fisherman mentions are, in fact, one person.
Which is an idea that I like quite a lot.
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