The Vanished Presence at Quincewood Keep
Quincewood Keep, built in 1862, was the generational home of the wealthy but unremarkable Ashton family. Its history was stable until the final owner, Mrs. Eliza Ashton, suddenly vacated the premises in 1885, following the death of her husband a year prior. The official reason for the departure was “personal distress,” yet a persistent local rumor suggested a quiet scandal involving a birth that was never officially registered. The central professional figure linked to this potential event is the Registered midwife, Mrs. Dorothy Pierce, who regularly attended to the surrounding community and occasionally the Keep. Her official documents—the birth documents, care tins, and household visit logs—should have definitively confirmed or denied any late-period births at the Keep. However, all records pertaining to Quincewood Keep from 1884 to 1885 in Mrs. Pierce’s possession are entirely Vanished, creating a definitive Missing block in the domestic history of the estate, leaving the entire event Unclaimed.
Missing Birth Documents and the Empty Log
The Registered midwife was legally required to maintain strict household visit logs and to file birth documents for every delivery she attended. The few fragments of birth documents found are themselves an anomaly; they should have been submitted for filing, not destroyed on the property. Furthermore, a subsequent search of the regional medical archives revealed that Mrs. Pierce’s household visit logs for the 1884-1885 period—the time frame of the rumored birth—contain a large, Missing section of pages torn directly from the bound log. This professional tampering confirms that the midwife’s entire record of her activities at Quincewood Keep was intentionally Vanished. The final Unclaimed piece of physical evidence is the care tin left in the guest suite; a valuable professional tool that a Registered midwife would never abandon unless forced to leave in extreme haste or under duress, solidifying the claim of a Missing or hidden crisis.
The Unclaimed Visit Logs
