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Elizabeth Canning (married name Treat; 17 September 1734 – June 1773) was an English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month. She ultimately became central to one of the most famous English criminal mysteries of the 18th century.She disappeared on 1 January 1753 before returning almost a month later to her mother’s home in Aldermanbury in the City of London emaciated and in a deplorable condition.
