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In reply to the discussion: People lost to history [View all]

PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Oh, yes.
Wed Jan 17, 2018, 12:04 AM
Jan 2018

I can name a couple of relatively well-known disappearances, although they happened long enough ago they've dropped out of general knowledge. Judge Crater comes to mind. He disappeared in 1930 after having dinner with some friends. No trace of him was ever found. The wiki article on him is interesting.

Somewhat more in line with what this thread is about is the daughter of Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife and widow. Shortly after Henry's death she married Thomas Seymour and gave birth to a daughter in September, 1548. Katherine died shortly after, and the baby was sent off to live with a relative and simply disappears from history. It's always been presumed she died in infancy, but were I a writer with a lean to historical fiction, I'd assume she lived and would write a novel having her on the outskirts of the next fifty years or so of English history.

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