Interesting. But maybe the real mystery is why they didn’t put much effort into finding them back then. Yes, it was the earliest attempt at colonization and the continent was alien and largely unexplored, but still it took decades before permanent settlements were established in NC and by that time, it would have been all the more impossible to find the survivors.
Post 10 — yes, sailing back to England is a much safer plan than waiting the storm out.
Jamestown was founded a couple of decades later. I think they made an effort to locate the people of the Lost Colony. Did the survivors not want to be found? Too content with their new life among the Indians?