Women in electoral rolls…

[Familyhistory]

Ladies, what year would women have appeared on the rolls as residents, please (not wealthy women)?

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Married women over 30 from 1918, all women over 21 from 1928.

i see Thank you!

@OccasionalHope

so 18 wasn’t considered an adult?!

The age of majority was only reduced from 21 to 18 in 1969!

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I'm afraid you are wrong. A woman did not have to be married in 1918 to qualify for the vote. Only today I was looking at the electoral register and the person I was looking for did not marry in her entire life and nor did the woman she was living with, and they are both shown on the electoral register in 1918.

Thanks @Ladyof2022

Oops, yes, a bit of an over simplification, single women over 30 who owned property could also vote 1918-28, and that probably accounts for your relative and her partner/friend.