Ringo's Family Tree

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

Ringo Starr was born on July 7, 1940 at 9 Madryn Street, Liverpool, as Richard, son of Richard Starkey. His parents, Richard Henry Parkin Starkey a confectioner of 59 Madryn Street, and Elsie Gleave, were married at St. Silas church, Toxteth Park, on October 24, 1936. Elsie was born at 4 Hurry Street, ToxethPark, on October 19, 1914, when her father, John Gleave, was a bombardier working as a laborer in the tin-works at the garrison of the 8th Battalion Royal Lancashier Artillery. In civil life, he was a boiler-marker and lived at 3 Loxdale Street. He married Catherine Park, on April 12, 1914. Catherine was born at 34 Gaskell Street, on April 21, 1891, the daughter of a merchant seaman. Her father, Andrew, was the son of another Liverpool sailor, Peter Johnson; her mother, Mary Elizabeth, was the daughter of a gardener called James Cunningham, also from Liverpool. Andrew and Mary were married at St. Thomas's parish church in Liverpool on April 14, 1875.
John Gleave, born at 11 Moville Street, Toxteth Park, on April 11, 1891, was the son of William Gleave and the grandson of another William Gleave, boiler-makers of Fair View Place, Toxteth. His mother, Mary Kate, daughter of engine-driver William Conroy of Byles Street, Toxteth, married William Gleave on June 10, 1889, at St. Michael's parish church in Liverpool on April 14, 1875.
Richard Henry Parkin was the son of John Alfred Parkin (otherwise John George) Starkey, boiler-maker, son of Henry Parkin Starkey, a driller of 31 Robinson Street, by Annie, daughter of a tinsmith, Alfred Bower of 26 Northumberland Street.