In a ridiculous scene straight out of the movies, the parents presented their child with an ultimatum as to whom he wanted to live with. What followed was a reckless tug-of-love that left emotional scars that John would carry for the rest of his life. Julia, sensing trouble, arrived in Blackpool and demanded that their son return to Liverpool with her.
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His wife had set up housekeeping with another man, and she showed absolutely no interest in Freddie's desperate pleas to patch up the relationship.įreddie's response was to take John to the nearby coastal resort of Blackpool, secretly planning to emigrate with his son to New Zealand and start a new life there. Needless to say, he came back too late to do the marriage any good. In an attempt to save the faltering marriage, he reappeared on the scene shortly after the five-year-old John had been enrolled in Dovedale Primary School off Penny Lane. For a while everything ran smoothly, but then Freddie spoiled things. Having handed over the responsibility for John's upbringing to Mimi and her husband George, she decided that the best way to mourn Freddie's absence was to go out and have a good time with her friends. Julia, in the meantime, was not exactly tying herself down either. Richard Buskin 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool 15, John’s first home before he went to live with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. The home life was not for him, and in spite of the occasional visit and the odd postcard, there was little sign of the elder Lennon over the next few years as he sailed his way around Canada, France, Italy and North Africa. By the time John was born some twelve years later, Freddie was serving as headwaiter on a ship bound for New York. It was at around this time that he met Julia Stanley.Ī year later he quit the office for the sea, finding employment first as a bellboy and then as a waiter, but his lack of ambition meant that he would progress no further. The authorities soon put an end to his big-time ambitions, however, and by the age of 15 he was well educated and working as an office boy. Retirement brought him to Liverpool, and after Jack's death in 1921 nine-year-old Freddie tried to continue the showbiz tradition when he ran away from his orphanage to join a children's troupe.
Both in their mid-twenties, they were at first very happy together, but neither of them was ready, emotionally or financially, to bring up a child.įreddie's father, Jack, had been born in Dublin and toured the United States as a Kentucky minstrel during the 1890s.
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Julia was a movie usherette before she married ship's steward Alfred (Freddie) Lennon on a whim on December 3, 1938.
She was more sinned against than sinning." Everything was funny, but she couldn't see into people until it was too late. "She never took life or anything seriously.
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"She was witty and full of fun," Mimi told Beatles chronicler Hunter Davies. Her behavior was sometimes irresponsible and often eccentric, and in sharp contrast to the reserved manners and sober attitude of Mimi. Julia Lennon (born Stanley) was a carefree, fun-loving woman. In any case, she need have looked no further than the little boy's mother to determine the broad shape of his personality. Mimi's effort to see her new nephew was rewarded for, as she asserted many years later, "I knew the moment I first set eyes on John that he was going to be something special." Mimi's reaction displayed either great premonition or, more likely, natural favoritism.
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