Could I have some thoughts please?

Thanks Arthur and Burt I'll give them a try.

The main reason I would like to find a Will for Robartt Fewell is in the hope it will lead to finding siblings of Robartt's son Giles, I would imagine there could be at least one more, a Robert, also perhaps a daughter Marie, Maria or Mary. So far whatever I've tried has come up blank, it seems to me that Suffolk is not too well covered in online sites like Ancestry, FreeReg, Family Search etc there's probably heaps of stuff waiting to be found. :( :)

I am confident that Robartt c 1558 is my earliest known Fewell ancestor, I don't suppose I will get back further than him the way online searchable records are at the moment.
 
arthurk said:
and two separate Robert FOWLEs. It might be worth looking for others in the family too.
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I found the Robert Fewell Withersfield entry OK but no matter what I tried I couldn't bring up the Robert Fowles, can you let me know what you put in the boxes please?
 
The following is what I got from the Cambridge University site.

"Robert Fewell
B.A. 1539 - 1540.
M.A. 1543.
R. Fewell of Withersfield, Suffolk,
Robert Fewell's approximate life span 1518 to 1616." (not bad if true).

Taking into account the academic years 1539 through to 1543 and his approximate life span 1518 to 1616, surely this Robert is not the Robartt Fewell who married Marie Boughtell in 1581 in Withersfield, Suffolk and the father of Giles Fewell baptised 12 Mar 1581 at Withersfield, that would see him aged 63 in 1581 when marrying Marie.
I'm thinking the Cambridge educated Robert Fewell would be more likely to be the grandfather of Giles rather than his father

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something, anyone have any thoughts on this?
 
Robert Fewell was vicar of Withersfield from 1558 to 1584. 26 years. The usual life job for a vicar? There is the death of Robtus Fewell 5 August 1589 Thaxted. A normal age of 71. The death in 1616 would most likely be HIS son and father of Giles. Yes I agree with you.
 
Spent most of today trying to find wills and anything useful on those Suffolk Robert Fewells aka Fowell aka Fowles people, just couldn't find them.

What I did find was on My Heritage site: -

Robert Fowell, birth 1518, death 1593, siblings Jane and 7 other siblings.

Robert Fowell born 1540, death 1558

Unfortunately no place names given, a sub, which I don't have, is needed to view those.
 
I found the details of the Robert Fowell born 1518 site, the Bigley etc family site on Family Search.

The places are just shown as Devon.
 
Findem said:
I found the Robert Fewell Withersfield entry OK but no matter what I tried I couldn't bring up the Robert Fowles, can you let me know what you put in the boxes please?
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Fowle in the surname box ("whole"), and Rob in the forename ("begins"). Nothing else.

There's a warning which I only noticed for the first time recently that if you've been using your Back button to get from a set of results to the search form, you should click the red Reset button at the top in case you accidentally include parameters from your previous search.
 
I thought to see what the British Record Society have published for
Calendars of Probate for Suffolk, being aware that there was some
for Sudbury.
I see that Withersfield falls in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury.
Volume 95 Probate Records of the Court of the Archdeaconry of
Sudbury 1354-1700 (A-K)
Volume 90 Probate Records of the Court of the Archdeaconry of
Suffolk 1444-1700 (A-K).
The Rev. S H A Hervey (I know of him as he was Vicar of Wedmore in
Somerset, compiling 3 volumes of the Parish Register there
plus a compelling reading called 'The Wedmore Chronicles'), compiled
lots of books on Suffolk Parish Registers, Suffolk Subsidies including
for 1527 and 1568 and an alumni of Bury St Edmunds Grammar School.
I do not know, if and when you can gain access, what you may have in
Oz Libraries (It would have been easier in Chelmsford) but apart from
splashing out on copies from ABE or where ever, they may be worth
looking at.
 
arthurk said:
you should click the red Reset button at the top in case you accidentally include parameters from your previous search.
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Thanks Arthur, I did notice the red reset button, I missed it first try, waded in without reading instructions, instructions, who needs them :), then having noticed that instruction tried again, unfortunately same result :D
 
Thanks Burt, I'll see what libraries hold although I'm not confident they will have what I want, I have tried in the past but found info I want is not held. Some years ago when looking on the shelves of a decent size library I couldn't see anything really likely to be of use. How many times have I thought if only I was in Chelmsford, when I've heard of what's available in Libraries over there.
 
Findem said:
Thanks Arthur, I did notice the red reset button, I missed it first try, waded in without reading instructions, instructions, who needs them :), then having noticed that instruction tried again, unfortunately same result :D
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I've just tried again. I think my computer must have found a cached version of the search form, as that came up OK. However, doing a search or going to the database's home page brought up a Page Not Available error, so there's obviously some kind of problem.

Meanwhile you can see the old printed volume containing the same information at
Code: 
https://archive.org/details/alumnicantabrigipt1vol2univiala/page/166/mode/2up
Ancestry has some Oxbridge Alumni volumes too, but I'm not sure if this is one of them.
 
His successor at Withersfield was Isaac Marrow, according to the Clergy Database, who took charge from 1585. That Database have not got to
include Robert Fewell yet, but about 20 miles west at Whaddon, Camb.,
was a Christopher Fewell at similar dates.
My biggest concern is, IF Robert did leave a Will, and none can be found in
the PCC, if he had resigned from the living at Withersfield perhaps due to
failing health in 1584, moving to Thaxted to be with relatives, then one
would have expected any Will for him to be in the Essex Courts rather than the
Suffolk Courts if he is the Robert that died in 1589.
Bit of a mouthful, but I think you gather what I mean!
 
burt said:
Bit of a mouthful, but I think you gather what I mean!
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Yes I do get what you mean and it does seem quite plausible, it would explain where that Robert came from, rather than apparently appearing out of thin air.

Thanks for those thoughts and info burt.
 
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