Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Friday, 28th August 2026 at 8.00 pm
This Zoom online presentation by Rebecca Probert will be about bigamy.
Today bigamy is one of the rarest of crimes, with only a handful of prosecutions each year. But at its peak there were approaching 1,000 cases in a single year.
Drawing on thousands of cases, from the Old Bailey to magistrates’ courts, this talk provides new research findings on the nature and extent of bigamy and remarriage in past centuries and decades to help family historians interpret their ancestors’ lives.