If you were illegitimate, then your place of settlement was where you were born. If your parents were married, it would be the more complex issue of where your father had his place of settlement.
"He knoweth not" is the usual get out if you didn't want to be removed to the other side of the country. Born in the workhouse would be a claim which could be tested and acted upon. What happened to Rebecca? In theory, she could have been removed to Yeovil herself.
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