Her mother died in 1945, and Julia had to take care of her father with help from her oldest sister. He moved his family to the suburb of Wavertree, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road near to Penny Lane. Their father, George Ernest Stanley, retired from the Merchant Navy and found a job with the Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association as an insurance investigator. John Lennon would later comment that the Stanley girls were "five, fantastic, strong, beautiful, and intelligent women".
Her mother, Annie Jane (née Millward), gave birth to a boy and then a girl, both of whom died shortly after birth. Julia Stanley, later known by the family as Judy, was born at 8 Head Street, Toxteth, South Liverpool in 1914, and was the fourth of five sisters. Biographer Ian MacDonald wrote that she was, "to a great extent . John was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs about her, including " Julia" and " Mother". On 15 July 1958, she was knocked down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house.
JULIA LENNON DIED HOW TO
She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele.
She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John "Bobby" Dykins. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was placed for adoption after pressure from her family.
After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister Mimi. Julia Lennon ( née Stanley 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon.
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