All icloud email over 20 days old is gone!

For some reason - all my iCloud inbox mail prior to the start of April is gone?
It email that is not even a month old, perhaps 20 days. Sent items is fine - loads of mail in there going back months. There is nothing in Trash, Junk, Archive??
Is this a known issue?
I've connected to the iCloud web site, my iphone, my ipad, my mAC and all show the same 'small number' of mail.
And no - I did not delete it! and even if I had - it should have been in my trash surely??
Help!

Hi wwwXpert.
Thanks for the response, do appreciate, but did state in the post that this is the case from ' The iCloud web site, my phone, my pad, my mac etc. I work in IT and know how frustrating it can be when people don't give all the info.
I've checked the mail setting on the phone and it states it should be showing '200 messages' yet there are only 119 left in the iClound inbox, so not even getting this far.
I can confirm that the 'iCloud Backup' is NOT turned on, but like I say - I don't need to backup the phone - it's on my Mac and Pad also - why would this be required?
TG

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