The subject chosen today by Margaret Mills was that of Catherine (or Kitty) Canham, who was known as the bigamist of  Thorpe le Soken. Catherine lived between 1720 and 1752 and was married to the local vicar, Henry Gough. Unfortunately she found life as a parson’s wife a bit dull and took herself off to London where she met and married Lord Dalmeny with whom she enjoyed the high life travelling widely. When Catherine became ill she knew she was going to die, confessed all to her new “husband” and expressed a wish to be buried back in Thorpe le Soken.

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See you next week,
Scott