Women / Persons ~ P14682

Elizabeth Canning

Alternate Names:
  • Elizabeth Treat
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1734 - 1773
Types:
  • English
  • Prisoner or captive
  • Victim of injustice
Note: Canning's disappearance, in which she claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month, is known as one of the most notorious criminal mysteries in 18th-century English law; Henry Fielding involved in the case (on Canning's side)
persons with degrees of separation from Elizabeth Canning