Another scenario is that Zillah was not particularly maternal but WAS a driven business woman and didn't have time for her children, if she could get someone else to look after them when they were small. I think it is a HUGE assumption to say they were whisked away from danger. She may have been ill, or suffering from PND - a hundred different reasons why two of the children weren't at home on census night in 1901.
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