Yes quite likely, he had a bit of a sad life in some respects, orphaned by 5 and put in the workhouse while his two younger sisters were put in an orphan home, he wasn't deemed suitable because he was conceived before they had been married
I knew nothing at all on this line when I began. I got the records for the sisters from the George Muller foundation in Bristol and they contained all the letters going between the orphanage and the parish relief quite a story....