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From: "Kelly Norman" 
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Subject: Jack Lennon of the kentucky Minstrels
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:15:23 +0000 (UTC)
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So, I've been poking around some of the Irish Lennon (Linnean) and McCartney 
geneology pages and a lot of them discuss John "Jack" Lennon, who
would have 
been Freddy's father.  He is said to have left Ireland in the 1830's (which 
I think would make him quite old) to find a life in the States.  He ended up 
traveling with a group called Andrew Robertson's Kentucky Minstrel's....but 
some web sources say this happened  in the 1890's. which would make more 
sense.  Also, some say he met his wife Mary "Polly" mcGuire in
Kentucky and 
took her back with them, and that they had 3 children; some that Polly was 
from County Fermnagh, just like himself (and the McCartneys, I believe) and 
travelled with him to his jurneys to the US.  These stories say they had 8 
shcildren, but 5 died in childbirth.

Here are some of the sites I looked at.  Can anyone help me sort the wheat 
from the chaffe?  I'm not only interested in this because of the obvious 
Beatle reasons, but because of the flow of Appalachian and Irish music back 
and forth over the ocean, as welll as its influence...intended or un! ...on 
the Boys.

http://www.lennon.net/timeline/1940.shtml

http://www.geocities.com/unclesamsfarm/songs/nellygray.htm

(unfortunately, I can't find the conflicting web pages tonight...maybe 
that's another sign they wre wrong!  Any way, if anyonw knows more about me 
on this topic it would help.  Thanks!

Kelly 


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