He then disappeared from his son’s life for twenty years.Īunt Mimi never changed her opinion about what she considered to be an ill-considered match. Famously, Julia then gave up care of her son to her sister Mimi.įreddie would make one final, melodramatic appearance in John’s childhood - the notorious tug-of-love on Blackpool promenade. Alfred and Julia Lennon were legally separated in 1942. Julia never lived with Freddie and went back to sea before John was born. War and a baby came in quick succession - but the marriage remained nominal. She just thought it was clever to defy the family.' This appears to have been on a whim, or more precisely to fulfil a dare. Then in 1938 she suddenly married her occasional boyfriend. Julia, now a cinema usherette, did continue to see Alf/Fred when he was on shore leave. Nor, according to the memory of the not always reliable Mr Lennon, did she respond to his letters. In many respects the relationship was casual - Julia ‘never went to the docks to see him off’ (Lewisohn, p.17). This meant long absences from Liverpool. Their relationship had continued intermittently, apparently without much commitment from either party. Julia Lennon’s age 60 years (as in 2021), height & weight.
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Soon after meeting Julia, Freddie joined the merchant navy. Noted, Julia Lennon’s primary income source was Musician, Singer, Song Creater, We are collecting information about Julia Lennon Cars, Monthly/Yearly Salary, Net worth from Wikipedia, Google, Forbes, and IMDb, will update you soon. That he had been placed in an orphanage after the death of his father might have evoked sympathy - but it also confirmed the impression that he was a young man to be avoided. He also seemed to be the archetypal ‘ scally’ - a figure of fun in Liverpool but not one welcomed into respectable families. There may also have been an element of sectarianism - the Stanleys were protestant while the Freddie’s name, address and former school marked him as a nominal Catholic.
The Stanleys always believed they were several notches above the Lennons, claiming better breeding, education, nationality, religion, refinement resources and aspiration… at least some of which is debatable. They saw Alf as ‘low’ - and they were not referring to his diminutive stature (he was 5.3”) The rebel meets rascal combination did not go down well with Julia’s family: the tight-knit Stanley clan. Like his brothers - and later his son - Alf played the harmonica - the 'mouth iron' as it was known in Liverpool. Alf sang, specialising in comedy songs and comically mangling the words of standards. Alf was a popular with his peers, ‘a rascal. Julia was vivacious, fun loving, a natural rebel. Both worked in junior office jobs and superficially had similar temperaments. They met in Sefton Park, exchanging come banter from the start.
Julia Stanley first met Alfred (aka Alf/Fred/Freddie) Lennon in 1929, when she was fifteen and he was two years older.
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