McCartney Times

It has long been written that John Lennon’s grandfather, John Lennon, known as “Jack”, was born in Ireland. Some sources said he was born in County Fermanagh, in Northern Ireland, while others gave his city of birth as Dublin, which is much further south. The legend claimed he had sailed to the United States at one point to be in the “Andrew Robertson’s Kentucky Minstrels,” later moving to Liverpool after the death of his first wife. Research claimed that Jack’s parents were John Lennon and Elizabeth Morris of Dublin, Ireland. This information was printed in several books, as well as Julian Lennon’s website, which at one time had a section with a family tree. (1) This information was accepted as correct in 2010 and as such, was also used in a prior series the John Lennon Examiner wrote on John Lennon’s Irish roots in 2010.However, new research reveals the inaccuracies in the above information, as well as many new pieces of information. This article sets the record straight and reveals these updates to John Lennon’s heritage: the Lennons came to Liverpool a generation earlier than originally thought; the true identity of John’s great-grandparents; his grandfather “Jack’s” birth in Liverpool, not Ireland, and the startling number of children Jack had who died as babies and never listed on former family trees.

Source: John Lennon’s ancestry: Lennons of Liverpool re-examined with new findings | Examiner.com