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Harry Rusling Billany the second child of Lincoln Billany and Betsy Wilson (1867-1943) born c. 1887 whose birth had been registered at the district of Myton, Hull, Yorkshire under Birth reference MYT/161/26.
At The UK Census of 1891 Harry Rusling Billany was shown as a visitor - at this time we are not aware of the connection/relationship to the head of household.
Source Extract 1891 UK Census RG_12_3941_14 At the UK census of 1901 Harry is found residing with his parents and siblings at 34 Redbourne Street, Myton, Hull Yorkshire.
Source Extract 1901 UK Census RG_13_4567_81_107/4507/f81 Harry Billany, started his working life with an apprenticeship to become a pattern-maker for shipbuilders, but he became impatient and ran away to sea. On returning to Hull he took up manual work, mainly around the docks.
In 1911 Harry Rusling Billany married Harriet Elsie Wilson b.c. 1889 at St James Hull.
The family initially resided at 51 Essex Street. Gypsyville Hull, Yorkshire.
This union probably produced seven children, four of their children died in infancy. In late 1913 the family moved into number 73 Devon Street, in the area known as Gypsyville on the south side of Hessle Road, Hull. Their new home had no better facilities than their previous one, but the family lived there for the next seventeen years. Harry ended his career at sea to stay with his family but he had difficulty finding regular work until he became a carpenter and joiner and eventually became a tram conductor for Hull Corporation. In 1932 this family moved to 15 Lakeside Grove, Gypsyville, Hull, a council house on a recently built estate.
This was a three-bedroom semi-detached, fully electric, with an indoor lavatory, and bathroom with hot and cold running water. However this area was subject to heavy bombing during world war II.
In 1941 the the family home was bombed and Elsie, Harry, and Joan suffered injuries. This was a traumatic time from which the family did not recover. In July 1941 bomb damage had become extensive so the family decided to move away from the area - initially settling in Bourne Lincolnshire where daughter Eva had been evacuated and had married. However they did not stay at Bourne moving swiftly on to Yeovil in Somerset. In 1943 the family received information that their son Dan Billany was MIA in Italy - presumed killed. Harry Rusling Billany died in Taunton, Somerset on 21st December 1950.
Harriet Elsie Billany died 1953
First Child. Daughter Eva Billany born in June, 1912 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/82/280.
This union produced at least two children.
Son Christopher Wilkin (known as Kit ) born Bourne Lincolnshire 1941,died 1985
Son. Peter Julian Born 4th qtr 1943 at Yeovil, Somerset. Birth reference
He
married Judith Ann Spence and moved to America,
Daniel Married Sarah and living in the USA, they have a daughter
Peter Julian and granddaughter Raley Eva now a widow married William Palmer Eva died in 1972.
Second Child Son Dan Billany, Born 14th November, 1913, in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/87/385. MIA presumed killed November, 1943, in Italy. (See Profile)
Third Child Daughter Peggy Billany born in October 1914-1914 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/90/2.
Fourth Child Daughter Kathleen Billany born in 1916 - 1919 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/95/103.
Fifth Child Daughter Joan Billany born in December 1920 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/103/32.
Joan Billany moved to Yeovil, Somerset in 1942 during WWII. Here she met Gerald Weston Brake; impressed by his good looks and fine horsemanship.
Joan married Gerald and together had two children: Daughter. Joanna Brake born 1956 at Yeovil Somerset - Birth Reference Page 90 7c/399 3rd qtr 1956.
Note worth mentioning here - Dan Billany had been a POW in Italy and was on the run in 1943. He stayed with the Meletti family in a farm on the outskirts of Soragna, five miles north of Fontanellato. Dan stayed there in hiding for a few weeks finishing off the final chapter of 'The Cage'. Early in October 1943 he left this and the exercise books containing 'The Trap' , with Dino Meletti who promised to post them to Britain after the war. In March 1946 Dan's thirteen exercise books arrived at the Billany home in
Yeovil, Somerset (where they had moved to in April 1942). Jodi(Joanne)Weston
Brake is currently publishing her uncle Dan Billany's hitherto unpublished work from
those papers.
Lost Chapel
Publications
Sixth Child Son Harry Billany born In April 1921 - 1921 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/107/179.
Seventh Child Daughter Pamela Billany born in 1923-1925 in the Hessle district of Hull, Yorkshire. Birth reference HES/114/57.
Billany Family Historical Index Cave-kids with Clan 2000 - A Family History Site maintained by Shona Klien Material Copyright © 2002. Last update was : December 30, 2009 All photos on this site belong to somebody who is not you so please don't use them without consent. Some photos Copyright Shona Klien. Some photographs courtesy of Hull Local Studies Library and aeservices.co.uk Cave-kids with Clan 2000 The Universal Network of Family Genealogy (Some Source Data courtesy of The Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull DX101/2/104/105 and DX 102/1) Kingston-upon-Hull Records Office and Central Library Archives. East Riding of Yorkshire Bishop Transcripts. . London Ancestor - Chronology,
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This was a two-up-two-down terraced house with a front
door opening into the living room, no electricity, no running water, and with an
outside lavatory. 
In
1940 during World War II, Eva had been evacuated from Hull to Bourne
in Lincolnshire. Eva married Charles Edward Wilkin
at Bourne Lincolnshire in March 1941. 
Jodi,
(Joanna) travelling extensively as
an on tour caterer to Madonna, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones and many others. Jodi has now set up 
Martin was to inherit his father’s skill as a show jumper.
Winning
the All England Junior Championship at 14 on his pony Bombadillo and,
more recently, the National Amateur Championship in 2005 on his horse 
