John's Family Tree

All information above and below was printed in a 16 Magazine back in 1967.

John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool Maternity Hospital on October 9, 1940. He was named John after his grandfather and Winston after the great war-time leader, Winston Churchill. His father, Alfred Lennon, a ship's steward and son of John Lennon, a freight clerk, was born at 27 Copperfield Street, Toxteth Park, on December 14, 1912. Alfred was living at 57 Copperfield Street when he married John's mother Julia at Liverpool Register Office on December 3, 1938. John Lennon senior may well have been the son of a ship's cook, also named John Lennon, and his wife Elizabeth (Morris) of 65 Mulberry Street Liverpool--and if so, was born on October 26, 1855. His wife, Alfred's mother, was Mary Maguire, but no record of their marriage has been found. John senior died aged sixty-six of a disease of the liver, August 3, 1921.
John's mother was born on March 12, 1914, the daughter of George Ernest Stanley, a sailor in the merchant navy. She was a movie theater attendant before she married. Her parents were married at Liverpool parish church on November 19, 1906. Her mother was Annie, daughter of John Millward, a solicitor's clerk. George Ernest Stanley, her father, was the son of William Henry Stanley, a musician of Cornwallis Street, Liverpool. He was born at 120 Salisbury Street, Everton, on August 22, 1874; at that time his father was bookkeeping in a local office. His mother was Eliza Jane, daughter of a clerk named Charles Gildea. William Henry Stanley, whose own father was also a clerk and called William Henry, married Eliza Jane Gildea at Walton-on-the-Hill parish church on October 14, 1868, when they were both 21 years old. And that is where the Lennon ancestry begins to meet with some difficulties which only a great deal more time and research could solve.