FEWELL Family

[findem]

Hi All,

Hope you don't mind my bringing this thread to life again, Middle Englander has sent an email to Trevor Mills regarding the Fewell info on the computer belonging to the Trevor's father.  I thought it best to have this thread nearer the "top of the page" so we can find it easier, also be good to have most of the Fewell info in one place.

M E asked the question: "Didn't your visit to the UK get us anywhere further with the William of Felsted (i.e. son of William and Hannah) scenario ?  No signs of intervening deaths or marriages "  Here is my reply, sorry it's so long winded:-

As for the William Fewell saga, unfortunately the Trevor Mills post (bombshell) came on 13th of March 05.  This was quite some time after I had arrived back in Oz so I couldn't look into it, not that I have any idea what to do anyway.

Adding some weight to dropping William son of William & Hannah Fewell as a possible husband of Margaret Twinn is that William & Margaret appear to have had only one child, William, baptised in Felsted.  Which probably means they moved out of Felsted to parts unknown.  That could rule the Felsted born William out of the picture although not necessarily so, some families did only have one child for various reasons.  Then again William, Hannah and family could have moved back in at a later date putting their son William back in the running.

To add to the confusion is another Fewel family in Takeley, that of a Thomas & Elizabeth.  According to the Takeley online transcripts they had 3 children baptised there, William and Thomas both baptised 17 Apr 1740 and John 3 Oct 1742.

In spite of all that I still lean more towards the Takeley William Fuell (Fewell) son of Philip & Ann bap 27 Apr 1737.  Mainly because of the occurence of the name Milly, Melly, Millicent in the families of Philip & Ann of Takeley and William & Margaret.

There is something that may help and that is the burial details of William Fewell, husband of Margaret Twinn, should the burial entry contain William's age it may well resolve any doubts.

I’d like to have any critique you (or anyone) have, good or bad, of my comments on the William Fewell saga

Regards.

PS Susie1, have you found Philomon yet?

 

[Susie1]

Hi Findem
Happy New Year.
Yes, I found Philomon 1781, His parents are John Fewell d 10 dec 1794 and Elizabeth Lanham.
siblings:  James  1768, Charles 1769, Elizabeth 1771, Ann 1773, Samuel 1775, Alice 1776, William 1778, Sarah 1783 and Lucy 1785.
The problem now is I can't find who John belonged to or where he was born.  There are no records for Great Canfield for the period when he would have been born.  Whoever the vicar was around that time, he never made any entries.  Another vicar tried to fill in a bit of info at a later date, but not much.
He may not even have been born in Great canfield.

I have also considered Thomas & Elizabeth, with their children William, Thomas and John.  The 1742 for John would have been about the right time.
John and Elizabeth Lanham married in 1768.

There was also a Thomas Fewell who married a Sarah Bacon, I think about 1777 whether this is the Thomas of Thomas and Elizabeth, I don't know.

I have been at a Brick wall for some time on this, unless anything appears for my John and Elizabeth, I don't think I will ever get back any further.

Sue

[findem]

Hi Sue,
Very pleased to see you found Philomon, don't give up on John, you'll get there.

I was looking at the online Takeley transcripts the other day so your mention of Thomas and Elizabeth rung a bell.

Thomas Fuell married Elisabeth Judd 20 July 1735 at Takeley.

I would imagine due to their close proximity their would have been a fair few interchanges between Takeley and the Canfields.  Not sure but I believe there is evidence of just that occurrence in the Takeley transcripts.

If Thomas Fuell and Elisabeth Judd turn out to be your ancestors, your Fewells could link to mine in another way.  I mentioned in my previous post that I favoured William of Philip and Ann as an ancestor, guess what Ann's maiden name was!  Philip Fuell married Anne Judd 26 Dec 1736 at Takeley.  I wonder......

Regards.

[Susie1]

Hi Findem
I will keep a close eye on your Fewells then in case you find something out. lol
This John before he married Elizabeth Lanham, was married to a Mary ? and they had one child John Fewell b 1766.  But I havn't been able to find anything out about him, maybe he died.
Take care
Sue

[findem]

Hi Sue,

Let's just hope Trevor Mills reponds soon to Middle Englander's email, until that happens I suppose it's a question of "watch this space".

Regards

[martineve]

Do you have any Eves or Fewells in your tree?
Findem    

Hi, I have just discovered that I come from a line of Eve's from Felsted and later Little Goggleshall and Great Waltham. I go back to John Eve of Felsted in 1615. I would have thought that William Eve was related.

Regards,

Martin Eve

[findem]

Hi Martin,
I have both Eve and Fewell lines, I'll respond your Eve query in the Eve topic you have posted on this board.

My Fewell line currently is quite a short line, it looks as though it starts with a William Fewell, son of Philip Fewell and Anne Judd, baptised 27 April 1737 at Takeley.  It is thought that he is the William Fuel/Fewell who married Margaret Twinn at Felsted in 1768.  Their daughter Sophia married into my Searles line 14 Nov 1809 and there my Fewell line ends.

I and no doubt others would be very interested to see your Fewell tree, even if only a brief outline.

I'm not sure but I believe someone else on this board may have Lt Coggeshall Fewell links, if so let's hope they make contact.

Let me know if you think I have any info of interest, I'm happy to share my info.

Regards

[essexbird2004]

Hi All

Well i have been away far to long i do think.......

I am now so confused....

One thing that bothers me about this Takeley business is that on the Marriage Banns of William Fewell and Margaret Twin it say's he's from Great Waltham...does this mean he lived there at time of marriage or was born there??

I am off to the Record Office tomorrow (Friday)

Anyone want me to look up anything in Particular....

as for Milly/Melly/Millic/Millicent i thought she married William Eve in which case when you look up the children they had her name is down as AMELIA which Milly is short for....so the Millicent birth in Takeley could just be a coincidence.....or not???

and why did i not get any messages when the posts were posted i could have joined in ages ago i thought it was all quiet here LOL

Kath xx

[essexbird2004]

Was gonna start another thread but then thought none of you would know LOL

Went to the records office and i didn't find out anything much really to do with William Fewell
I can tell you he wasn't buried in Great Waltham between 1813-1865 but i didn't get time to look at the records from 1790 to 1812 i have to go back on Monday...

I did find something that did bemuse me a bit, i looked at Baxters Burials  for Felsted

and guess what NO FEWELL/FUELL/FUEL all of them i found (21 of them) between 1813-1865 were SEWELL's now that surely can't be right

Another case of Mistranscription??

I will post on here what i found which may be of some use at a later date

On Monday i will be looking at the deaths/burials of Gt Waltham from about 1790-1812 to see if William died then, seeing as Sophia was baptised there in 1791 i am hoping the sod died there! and even if i do manage to find him knowing our luck there will be no age with him then we are back to square -247

Kath xx