The 1926 Register is interesting as it shows women being eligible to vote. From what I can gather, in 1918 women aged over 30 and property owners were entitled to vote for the first time, but it was not until 1928 that all women were eligible to vote on the same footing as men.
From looking at the Amble register, it seems that married women were eligible because their husbands were occupiers of property but there also seems to be some single women eligible too......property owners in their own right?
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