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Offline PrawnCocktail

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Re: Liverpool: Beatles connections?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 June 25 09:00 BST (UK) »
My junior school wasn't far from John's house. One of my classmates was dared to go and knock on John's door. She knocked, and was so scared she ran off, but it turned out there was no-one in!

That was 1965. A few years later, when Penny Lane came out, I was going to (secondary) school every day on a bus that passed Penny Lane!
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Re: Liverpool: Beatles connections?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 10 June 25 09:16 BST (UK) »
My widowed aunt remarried.
Her new husband was cousin to one of Paul McCartney's parents, so (at a remove) also cousin to McCartney. He didn't seem to think too highly of him!
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Re: Liverpool: Beatles connections?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 11 June 25 16:01 BST (UK) »
  A friend is distantly related to Paul McCartney, though she has never tried to make contact. Has actually been proven via her unusual surname and detail found in a tree compiled by Michael McCartney for inclusion in a book (can't recall which).

The Lennons are supposed to be from Scotland (probably from Ireland first) and the Starkeys from the  North of Scotland and Orkneys. Harrisons are everywhere of course.
 
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Re: Liverpool: Beatles connections?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 11 June 25 16:28 BST (UK) »
I went to one of the schools Paul went to but decades later. My cousin is a distant relation of John Lennon. She is a descendant of the County Down, Ireland Lennons, James Lennon & Jane McConville who settled in Liverpool via their son Edward. John was a descendant of Edward's brother John "Jack" Lennon (John's grandfather).

Paul's paternal ancestry line is also from Ireland:-

https://merseysidebiographypages.weebly.com/paul-mccartney.html

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