Lennon would later comment that the 'Stanley girls' were "five, fantastic, strong, beautiful, and intelligent women." Annie Jane Stanley died in 1945, and Julia had to take care of her father with very little help from Mimi. He moved his family from 8 Head Street to the Liverpool suburb of Woolton, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road in the district of Penny Lane. George retired from sailing and found a job with the Liverpool and Glasgow Tug Salvage Company as an insurance investigator. Annie's mother hated "the devil's English". Her mother, Annie Jane Millward, was born in Chester around 1875, to Welsh parents. Julia's father, George Stanley, was born in the Everton district of Liverpool in 1874. She was buried in the Allerton Cemetery, in Liverpool.Īccording to Lennon, the Stanley family once owned the whole of Woolton village. Julia visited Mimi almost daily (even when Lennon was staying at her house) but shortly after leaving Mimi's house one evening Julia was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman who was drunk at the time, on 15 July 1958. She kept in almost daily contact with Lennon, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Bobby Dykins' house. She bought Lennon his first guitar and encouraged him musically, even though her sister, Mimi Smith, strongly disapproved. Julia was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, but was also musical and had a strong sense of humor. She later had one daughter (who was given up for adoption after pressure from her family) with 'Taffy' Williams, and then had two daughters Julia and Jacqui, with John 'Bobby' Dykins.
John was her first child and was the only child of her marriage to Alf Lennon. Julia was known as 'Judy,' and was the fourth of five sisters. Julia Stanley Lennon (née Stanley) (12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of John Lennon.
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