How about Out of Workhouse - for payments made to people at home? But only a guess
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Dr David Alan Gatley
Award Leader, Sociology
Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Staffordshire University
College Road
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 2DE
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From: From: Local-History list [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Higginbotham [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 March 2011 22:08
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Subject: [LOCAL-HISTORY] O.W.s?
A query passed on from Anthony Chadwick at Ripon Workhouse Museum.
Suggestions welcome!
Thanks
Peter Higginbotham
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> A local lady has done some sterling work on the Ripon workhouse records.
> She cannot find out what the Letters O.W. stand for in columns of items of
outdoor relief. She also finds O.W. Cab but is not happy to guess that this
might be payment for a taxi.
> The dates are first decades of the last century.
>
> Have you encountered O.Ws ?
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