He played the banjo, as did Julia, though neither pursued music professionally (Julia would later teach her son how to play the banjo). Julia asked him to take off his hat, which he promptly did but threw it straight into the lake.Īlf was a musician, and specialised in impersonating Louis Armstrong and Al Jolson. The 14-year-old Julia said that his hat looked "silly," to which the 15-year-old replied that Julia looked "lovely," and sat down next to her. Alf, who was dressed in a bowler hat and holding a cigarette holder, saw "this little waif" sitting on a wrought-iron bench. Although he did not speak to her at the time, he later saw Julia again in Sefton Park, where he had gone with a friend to meet girls. Relationship with Julia Stanley Sefton Park, where Julia Stanley first met Alf LennonĪlf first saw Julia Stanley at the Trocadero club, a converted cinema on Camden Road, Liverpool. His brother Sydney often lent money to him, after Sydney got a job in a tailor's shop. When he was 15 years old he left the Bluecoat orphanage and found a job as an office-boy, but preferred to visit Liverpool's many vaudeville theatres and cinemas, where he knew the usherettes by name. He was known as being always quick with a joke or a witty line, but never held a job for any length of time. He travelled with the troupe for a time before being discovered in Glasgow and returned to the orphanage, where he was severely punished. Having p*ed the audition he ran away from the orphanage and joined the show. In 1927, he auditioned for a children's music hall act, Will Murray's Gang, at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool. He had rickets as a child and wore leg braces, which led to his growth being stunted at 5' 4". Early lifeĪlfred Lennon (always called 'Alf' by his family), was known as being happy-go-lucky, and "couldn't resist having a good time". It was situated just around the corner from Newcastle Road (where Julia Stanley lived). After Jack died, Polly did not have enough money to keep the whole Lennon family together, so she placed two of her children, Alf and Edith, in the Blue Coat School Orphanage. Polly could not read or write, but was reported to be very humorous and supposedly had psychic abilities. The Lennons moved back to Toxteth Park, Jack by this time a shipping clerk he died in 1921, at 57 Copperfield Street. Daughter Edith Lennon was born that year and then Charles (21 November 1918 – ). One of the witnesses at the wedding was Polly's sister, Catherine Seddon. Jack eventually married Polly in 1915, after they had moved to Elmore Street, Everton. It is also claimed that Jack's first wife was an American who died during childbirth after they had both moved back to Liverpool. Their son, Jack Lennon, became a "refined" British minstrel, who toured the United States with Roberton's Kentucky Minstrels vaudeville troupe in the late 19th century. 1831 – 1869), Alf's grandparents, moved with their respective families to Liverpool in the 1840s. 4 Birth of John Lennon and disappearanceĪlfred Lennon was of Irish ancestry.James Lennon (c.Alf died in Brighton, where he had gone to live after marrying Pauline Jones, with whom he had two sons. Alf had very little contact with his son until Beatlemania, when they met again, but later the pair had only intermittent contact with each other. Alfred offered to look after his wife, their child and the expected baby, but Julia rejected the idea. During this period Julia became pregnant with another man's child.
John was their only child, but as Alfred was frequently away at sea during World War II, he did not see much of his child during his infancy. Alfred spent many years in an orphanage with his sister, Edith, after his father died. Father of English musician John Lennon (1912–1976)Īlfred "Alf" Lennon (14 December 1912 – 1 April 1976), also known as Freddie Lennon, was an Englishman best known as the father of musician John Lennon.
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