Fewell aka Fowell family.

[findem]

https://british-history.ac.uk

Pop "robert fewell" in Keywords (include "   " as part of key) - returns 3 hits. The first relates to a Robert Fewell at Cambridge with a date.

Else, pretty slim pickings re. your "rellie".

I gave this a try, I followed your instructions regarding "robert fewell", the first of the three items mentions "Hakerston, Robert Cowper, Robert Fewell and Christopher Bland"...., when I clicked on that it lists two deeds numbered A13201 & A13300, nowhere in those two deeds could I find a mention of Robert Fewell or even Cambridge so perhaps I'm missing something?

[hanes teulu]

When the 3 hits are returned click on "Deeds A.13201-A.13300" (in blue)
Returns deeds numbered 23201-13300. I used screen search to find "fewell" - identified 3 deeds
(13218, 13248 and 13257). 13218 and 13248 are relevant; 13257 includes the old spelling of "fuel". 

[findem]

When the 3 hits are returned click on "Deeds A.13201-A.13300" (in blue)
Returns deeds numbered 23201-13300. I used screen search to find "fewell" - identified 3 deeds
(13218, 13248 and 13257). 13218 and 13248 are relevant; 13257 includes the old spelling of "fuel".

Thanks for that info I'll give it a try.

The way the Fewell name has been spelled is strange, largely I think due to how the various clergy recorders thought it should be spelled.  In Withersfield 1581 it's Fewell and in Thaxted late 1500s it's Fewell, whilst in another part of Essex, around the same time, it's spelled Fowell.  Early 1600s in Thaxted it's Fuell and then Fewell, then in Takeley Essex around 1740ish it's back to Fuell again, in the late 1700s in Gt Waltham and in one family it starts with Fewell for two children and then for the rest it's Fuel again.

[findem]

When the 3 hits are returned click on "Deeds A.13201-A.13300" (in blue)
Returns deeds numbered 23201-13300. I used screen search to find "fewell" - identified 3 deeds
(13218, 13248 and 13257). 13218 and 13248 are relevant; 13257 includes the old spelling of "fuel".

I found the two Robert Fewell items but couldn't find Fuel in A13257, I then tried Fuel and Fuell in the page search with "0 results", then I tried a search on Robert and got 57 hits but not one mentioned Fuell(l).  Still never mind I'm happy with what I have, it's interesting that all the info I have on Robert pre marriage to Marie is Cambridge Uni related.

[hanes teulu]

When the 3 hits are returned click on "Deeds A.13201-A.13300" (in blue)
Returns deeds numbered 23201-13300. I used screen search to find "fewell" - identified 3 deeds
(13218, 13248 and 13257). 13218 and 13248 are relevant; 13257 includes the old spelling of "fuel".

but couldn't find Fuel in A13257

A13257 includes "fewell" as the old spelling of fuel ie "... lopp fewell, ploughbote and cartebote ...".
Hence it doesn't apply to your chasing Fewell as a surname.
If you put "fewell" in keyword search you get 120 hits - the majority relating to "fewell/fewel" as fuel. A couple apply as surname eg "William de Fewell; Matthew Fewell".

[findem]

When the 3 hits are returned click on "Deeds A.13201-A.13300" (in blue)
Returns deeds numbered 23201-13300. I used screen search to find "fewell" - identified 3 deeds
(13218, 13248 and 13257). 13218 and 13248 are relevant; 13257 includes the old spelling of "fuel".

but couldn't find Fuel in A13257

A13257 includes "fewell" as the old spelling of fuel ie "... lopp fewell, ploughbote and cartebote ...".
Hence it doesn't apply to your chasing Fewell as a surname.
If you put "fewell" in keyword search you get 120 hits - the majority relating to "fewell/fewel" as fuel. A couple apply as surname eg "William de Fewell; Matthew Fewell".

Thanks for that explanation Hanes much appreciated.

I'm going to spend some time collating all the info and see if I can come to terms with some of it.

I've have a feeling some info I have might relate to an earlier Robert Fewell in Suffolk, probably the father of the Robert Fewell who married Marie Boughtell in 1581 at Withersfield.

I have a Robert Fewell who was buried in 1589 in Thaxted who initially I thought was the Robert Fewell husband of Marie Boughtell and father of Giles, unfortunately, like many records in Thaxted at that time, info given was just the bare bones, no husband of, or widdower, age etc.

It doesn't help that there are only five years between the 1581 marriage and the 1589 burial, I realise it's quite possible but it leaves me a trifle uneasy, so I need to get my head around things.

Not sure if it will become clearer but that's Genealogy! 

Regards.

[hanes teulu]

The date of the deed "8 December 35 Henry VIII" (1544) would appear to rule out "Robert Fewell ... clerk" as the Robert that married 1581.

[findem]

The date of the deed "8 December 35 Henry VIII" (1544) would appear to rule out "Robert Fewell ... clerk" as the Robert that married 1581.

I agree with that but it's all worth knowing and recording, especially as it relates to Cambridge Uni.

[hanes teulu]

Agreed - the paucity of info the further back you go means recording every scrap. Have always thought that "Robert ... clerk" fitted in somewhere.

good luck