![In the early 1800's John Lennon earned part of his living singing in pubs around the West of Ireland. His two sons were born in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. John and his wife Elizabeth took their boys and emigrated to America. Their son Jack Lennon became an accomplished musician and singer. He established a reputation as a popular soloist when he toured the United States with 'Andrew Robertson's Kentucky Minstrels' during the 1890's. Jack returned to Liverpool, England and after his first wife died he married Mary 'Polly' McGuire. She bore him eight children, six of whom survived.]( "In the early 1800's John Lennon earned part of his living singing in pubs around the West of Ireland. His two sons were born in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. John and his wife Elizabeth took their boys and emigrated to America. Their son Jack Lennon became an accomplished musician and singer. He established a reputation as a popular soloist when he toured the United States with 'Andrew Robertson's Kentucky Minstrels' during the 1890's. Jack returned to Liverpool, England and after his first wife died he married Mary 'Polly' McGuire. She bore him eight children, six of whom survived.")
In the early 1800's John Lennon earned part of his living singing in pubs around the West of Ireland. His two sons were born in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. John and his wife Elizabeth took their boys and emigrated to America. Their son Jack Lennon became an accomplished musician and singer. He established a reputation as a popular soloist when he toured the United States with 'Andrew Robertson's Kentucky Minstrels' during the 1890's. Jack returned to Liverpool, England and after his first wife died he married Mary 'Polly' McGuire. She bore him eight children, six of whom survived.
When Jack died in 1921 his son Alfred Lennon was seven years old. Alfred was raised in a local orphanage. At the age of 14 he ran away from the orphanage and joined 'Will Murray's Gang', a popular children's troupe. He was soon caught and returned to the orphanage.
Alfred grew up to be a very handsome young man, and when the time came to leave the orphanage he found work on board the old liners of the 1930s. Alfred would occasionally black-up to do a very impressive impersonation of Al Jolson.
In 1930 while walking through a park in Liverpool he met the attractive and bubbly Julia Stanley. "I was sitting in Sefton Park with a mate who was showing me how to pick up girls … There was this little waif that we had an eye on. As I walked past her, she said: 'You look silly'. I said: 'You look lovely!' and I sat down beside her."
на фото - Jack Lennon & Polly Maguire....
