Having set the physical scene this is perhaps an opportune point to go back in time and cover a little local folklore and history in which undoubtedly our forebears played a part....

The villages of Easton and Wakeham to which Robert1 moved (and presumably Richard, because that is where he met his death) lie at the heart of the Isle of Portland....

With this move to the top of the Island can be seen the changing times toward the end of the 18th century and when the ways of the Flanns began to alter. Family lands had been sold, and like elsewhere on...

Now comes John3 Flann the second son of Richard and Elizabeth who married Grace White in 1742 and died in 1789 and left no will. Grace had died earlier in 1786....

We can now return to the family line with Richard, eldest son of Thomas and Margery who in 1715 married Elizabeth Glover....

Abraham Flann is not an ancestor but the youngest son of Thomas and Margery, and the youngest brother of Richard (d. 1740), our ancestor and William....

William Flann was the third son of Thomas and Margery. He was also a younger brother of eldest brother Richard (d. 1740) from whom we descend....

An Augusten Elliott was one witness to Margery Flann’s Will. Augusten must have been known to Margery for her to ask him to act as witness, but how after all this time we do not know....

Underhill is an area of very steep land at the north end of Portland containing four of Portland’s eight villages....

Margery’s husband Thomas died in 1714 leaving everything to her, and this Will provides a great deal of information about the family. Two of her four sons, William and Abraham, were her Executors....