On realms pillagers from patrols (have not tested with nonpatrol pillagers) respawn upon unloading and reloading chunks even when name tagged and in a boat. Using a name tag seemed to prevent this for a short time but pillagers still despawned after enough unloading and reloading.
This has occurred 3 separate times on the same realm.
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Mobs face many dangers from the environment or other mobs that could explain why they are gone. Could your pillagers have been hit by an iron golem, or lightning, or stray arrows? Or could they have shot each other by mistake, or been killed by another player?
We will not be able to confirm a bug unless we can reproduce the issue, so we need you to give more details about the circumstances of their disappearance.