I don't disagree that there were some long term residents at the Victoria Home Sally and some were even reasonably well off as a contemporary account makes clear. I was speculating on the likelihood of Flemming living there for 14 months as some posters take it as axiomatic that he was. I am comfortable to assert that the vast majority of inmate would be of irregular domiciliary status.
I was under the impression that after 1865 the period of settlement in a parish in order to qualify for relief was one year. Perhaps I was wrong on that
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