The Family of Dan Billany

For many years we've waited
For the power to elect
"One of ourselves" who knows the People's wants
And in the House of Commons
Among the favoured and select,
Would his duty do in spite of all their taunts.
Chorus: For we have no doubt or fear
But march forward, persevere,
Neither turning to the left or to the right;
And the brighter day that's dawning,
We will hail it with a cheer
And for "Billany" the working-man we'll fight.

(From Mark Hasting's 'Radical Songs for Working Men, Specially Composed for Election Meetings in support of Mr N.B.Billany)

Louisa Wilson

Dan Billany's maternal grandmother.

Dan described her as 'an angel because she was a constant support to his family in the early days when they were struggling against poverty and ill health.

Lincoln Abraham Billany.

Born on 14th April 1865 (the day Abraham Lincoln was shot)
Lincoln Billany was a socialist all his life.With strong political interests he was very much part of the industrial struggle of the times. In 1886 he married Betsy Wilson and had four children, the first was Harry Rusling Billany, Dan's father.

The Billany Family

(From Mark Hasting's 'Radical Songs for Working Men, Specially Composed for Election Meetings in support of Mr N.B.Billany)