"The former Mary Patricia Mohin, the daughter of Owen Mohin, a coal merchant, was born at 2 Third Avenue, Fazarkerley on 29 September 1909. Her mother was Mary Teresa Mohin, nee Danher.
Mary had an elder brother, Wilf, and a younger brother and sister, Bill and Agnes. Agnes died at the age of two. Mary's mother also died giving birth in January 1919 and the baby died with her.
Mary became a nurse at Alder Hey Hospital at the age of fourteen. When her father remarried, Mary couldn't get on with Rose, her stepmother, and she moved out of the family home at the age of eighteen and settled in with other relatives.
Mary was to become a nursing sister at the age of 24 after she'd moved to Walton Hospital.
Mike McCartney recalls that her patients knew his mother as 'the Angel'.
It was while Mary was a nurse at Walton Hospital that she was acquainted with Jim's sister Jin, who had recently been married to Harry Harris, and she dropped by to see them at the McCartney family home in 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby where she met Jim McCartney. There was a Luftwaffe air raid that night, so Mary and Jim spent the evening huddled together downstairs in the house.
On 15 April 1941 she married James McCartney at St Swithins Roman Catholic Chapel in Gill Moss, Liverpool. Mary was 31 years old while James was 38. The couple moved into furnished rooms at Sunbury Road, Anfield, which was Paul's first home.
Mary gave birth to her first son, James Paul McCartney, on 18 June 1942 and was given a private ward at Walton Hospital due to the fact that she'd previously been the sister in charge of the maternity section. The baby was named after his father, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.
She gave up her job for a time and gave birth to her second son, Peter Michael McCartney, on 7 January 1944. The family then moved to a 'prefab' bungalow in Roach Avenue, Knowsley.
Because Mary was a Catholic, both her sons were baptised as Catholics, but they weren't sent to Catholic schools.
Due to the family's limited finances as Jim's job was not a well-paid one, Mary returned to her profession and became a part-time health visitor. She then became a domiciliary midwife, which meant that the family were given a council house at a nominal rent. Initially this was at 72 Western Avenue, Speke.
Paul was to say, 'My mum was the upwardly mobile force. She was always moving us to a better address; originally we had to go out to the sticks of Liverpool because of her work as a midwife. Roads were unmade but the midwife's house came free. So economically it was a good idea. She always wanted to move out of rough areas.'
He also said, 'I had a broad scouse accent, talking real broad like the rest of the kids round our way. She told me off about it.'
Paul remembered that his mum whistled a lot and recalled, 'That's one of my fond memories of my mum. You don't hear many women whistling. She was quite musical.'
She also travelled to her duties (she was on call 24 hours a day) by bicycle in her navy-blue uniform and hat as the family couldn't afford a car.
Mary had aspirations for her sons, wanting them to move up in life and she encouraged Paul to speak properly, which resulted in him not having a strong Liverpool accent. She also had dreams of Paul becoming a doctor.
Due to Mary's job, the family were able to move into Forthlin Road in the Ailerton area in 1955, which was much nearer to Liverpool centre than Speke.
In the summer of 1955 she began experiencing pains in her chest and started taking large doses of BiSodol, which was merely an antacid powder. The following summer her 12-year-old son Michael came into the bedroom and found her crying. When he asked her what the matter was, she said, 'Nothing, love.'
Breast cancer was diagnosed and she was taken to the Northern Hospital, where she underwent a mastectomy operation, which actually exacerbated the condition. When Paul, Mike and their father went to visit her in hospital they were startled by her appearance. Paul said that it was 'a huge shock to us, suddenly she was ill, we were very young'. Paul and Mike then went to stay with their Uncle Joe and Auntie Joan.
Mary was to tell her sister-in-law, 'I would have liked to have seen the boys grow up.'
On 31 October 1956 when the boys woke up to get ready for school, Joan told them, 'Love, your mum's dead.'
Mary was 47 years old; Paul was 14 and Mike 12.
On 3 November 1956 Mary was buried at Yew Tree Cemetery in Finch Lane, Huyton.
On hearing of his mother's death, Paul cried himself to sleep and prayed for her to come back. He described them as: 'Daft prayers, you know, if you bring her back I'll be very, very good for always. I thought, it just shows how stupid religion is. See, the prayers didn't work when I really needed them.'
But his mother's death caused Paul to find solace in a guitar his father had recently bought for him as his brother Mike recalls. 'It was just after Mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother - and you find a guitar.'
Paul was to pay tribute to her in 'Let It Be' with the reference to 'mother Mary' and in 'Lady Madonna' when he sings about 'children at her feet'. Mike McCartney also paid tribute when he placed a photograph of her on the cover of his first solo album.
Paul's first daughter Mary was also named after his mother.
In 1984, during a television interview, Paul discussed his mother's death. 'I was fourteen. It's a very difficult age, fourteen, because you are growing up and you're getting your act together. So it was a tough time to have something as devastating as that happen. I think I probably covered a lot of it up at the time, as you would, a fourteen-year-old boy."
Harry, Bill. "McCartney, Mary Patricia (mother)" The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books, Copyright 2003∼Mother of Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Born in 1909 to Owen Mohin and his wife, Mary Teresa (Danher) Mohin. Married to James McCartney (1902-1976). Mother of James Paul and Peter Michael. Mary was a nurse/midwife and often went to calls on her bicycle. Her husband James was a fireman during the war years and also worked as a salesman in cotton. They met at his sisters house during an air raid. Pauls first daughter with his wife Linda (Eastman) is named after her.
Mary had an elder brother, Wilf, and a younger brother and sister, Bill and Agnes. Agnes died at the age of two. Mary's mother also died giving birth in January 1919 and the baby died with her.
Mary became a nurse at Alder Hey Hospital at the age of fourteen. When her father remarried, Mary couldn't get on with Rose, her stepmother, and she moved out of the family home at the age of eighteen and settled in with other relatives.
Mary was to become a nursing sister at the age of 24 after she'd moved to Walton Hospital.
Mike McCartney recalls that her patients knew his mother as 'the Angel'.
It was while Mary was a nurse at Walton Hospital that she was acquainted with Jim's sister Jin, who had recently been married to Harry Harris, and she dropped by to see them at the McCartney family home in 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby where she met Jim McCartney. There was a Luftwaffe air raid that night, so Mary and Jim spent the evening huddled together downstairs in the house.
On 15 April 1941 she married James McCartney at St Swithins Roman Catholic Chapel in Gill Moss, Liverpool. Mary was 31 years old while James was 38. The couple moved into furnished rooms at Sunbury Road, Anfield, which was Paul's first home.
Mary gave birth to her first son, James Paul McCartney, on 18 June 1942 and was given a private ward at Walton Hospital due to the fact that she'd previously been the sister in charge of the maternity section. The baby was named after his father, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.
She gave up her job for a time and gave birth to her second son, Peter Michael McCartney, on 7 January 1944. The family then moved to a 'prefab' bungalow in Roach Avenue, Knowsley.
Because Mary was a Catholic, both her sons were baptised as Catholics, but they weren't sent to Catholic schools.
Due to the family's limited finances as Jim's job was not a well-paid one, Mary returned to her profession and became a part-time health visitor. She then became a domiciliary midwife, which meant that the family were given a council house at a nominal rent. Initially this was at 72 Western Avenue, Speke.
Paul was to say, 'My mum was the upwardly mobile force. She was always moving us to a better address; originally we had to go out to the sticks of Liverpool because of her work as a midwife. Roads were unmade but the midwife's house came free. So economically it was a good idea. She always wanted to move out of rough areas.'
He also said, 'I had a broad scouse accent, talking real broad like the rest of the kids round our way. She told me off about it.'
Paul remembered that his mum whistled a lot and recalled, 'That's one of my fond memories of my mum. You don't hear many women whistling. She was quite musical.'
She also travelled to her duties (she was on call 24 hours a day) by bicycle in her navy-blue uniform and hat as the family couldn't afford a car.
Mary had aspirations for her sons, wanting them to move up in life and she encouraged Paul to speak properly, which resulted in him not having a strong Liverpool accent. She also had dreams of Paul becoming a doctor.
Due to Mary's job, the family were able to move into Forthlin Road in the Ailerton area in 1955, which was much nearer to Liverpool centre than Speke.
In the summer of 1955 she began experiencing pains in her chest and started taking large doses of BiSodol, which was merely an antacid powder. The following summer her 12-year-old son Michael came into the bedroom and found her crying. When he asked her what the matter was, she said, 'Nothing, love.'
Breast cancer was diagnosed and she was taken to the Northern Hospital, where she underwent a mastectomy operation, which actually exacerbated the condition. When Paul, Mike and their father went to visit her in hospital they were startled by her appearance. Paul said that it was 'a huge shock to us, suddenly she was ill, we were very young'. Paul and Mike then went to stay with their Uncle Joe and Auntie Joan.
Mary was to tell her sister-in-law, 'I would have liked to have seen the boys grow up.'
On 31 October 1956 when the boys woke up to get ready for school, Joan told them, 'Love, your mum's dead.'
Mary was 47 years old; Paul was 14 and Mike 12.
On 3 November 1956 Mary was buried at Yew Tree Cemetery in Finch Lane, Huyton.
On hearing of his mother's death, Paul cried himself to sleep and prayed for her to come back. He described them as: 'Daft prayers, you know, if you bring her back I'll be very, very good for always. I thought, it just shows how stupid religion is. See, the prayers didn't work when I really needed them.'
But his mother's death caused Paul to find solace in a guitar his father had recently bought for him as his brother Mike recalls. 'It was just after Mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother - and you find a guitar.'
Paul was to pay tribute to her in 'Let It Be' with the reference to 'mother Mary' and in 'Lady Madonna' when he sings about 'children at her feet'. Mike McCartney also paid tribute when he placed a photograph of her on the cover of his first solo album.
Paul's first daughter Mary was also named after his mother.
In 1984, during a television interview, Paul discussed his mother's death. 'I was fourteen. It's a very difficult age, fourteen, because you are growing up and you're getting your act together. So it was a tough time to have something as devastating as that happen. I think I probably covered a lot of it up at the time, as you would, a fourteen-year-old boy."
Harry, Bill. "McCartney, Mary Patricia (mother)" The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books, Copyright 2003∼Mother of Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Born in 1909 to Owen Mohin and his wife, Mary Teresa (Danher) Mohin. Married to James McCartney (1902-1976). Mother of James Paul and Peter Michael. Mary was a nurse/midwife and often went to calls on her bicycle. Her husband James was a fireman during the war years and also worked as a salesman in cotton. They met at his sisters house during an air raid. Pauls first daughter with his wife Linda (Eastman) is named after her.
"The former Mary Patricia Mohin, the daughter of Owen Mohin, a coal merchant, was born at 2 Third Avenue, Fazarkerley on 29 September 1909. Her mother was Mary Teresa Mohin, nee Danher.
Mary had an elder brother, Wilf, and a younger brother and sister, Bill and Agnes. Agnes died at the age of two. Mary's mother also died giving birth in January 1919 and the baby died with her.
Mary became a nurse at Alder Hey Hospital at the age of fourteen. When her father remarried, Mary couldn't get on with Rose, her stepmother, and she moved out of the family home at the age of eighteen and settled in with other relatives.
Mary was to become a nursing sister at the age of 24 after she'd moved to Walton Hospital.
Mike McCartney recalls that her patients knew his mother as 'the Angel'.
It was while Mary was a nurse at Walton Hospital that she was acquainted with Jim's sister Jin, who had recently been married to Harry Harris, and she dropped by to see them at the McCartney family home in 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby where she met Jim McCartney. There was a Luftwaffe air raid that night, so Mary and Jim spent the evening huddled together downstairs in the house.
On 15 April 1941 she married James McCartney at St Swithins Roman Catholic Chapel in Gill Moss, Liverpool. Mary was 31 years old while James was 38. The couple moved into furnished rooms at Sunbury Road, Anfield, which was Paul's first home.
Mary gave birth to her first son, James Paul McCartney, on 18 June 1942 and was given a private ward at Walton Hospital due to the fact that she'd previously been the sister in charge of the maternity section. The baby was named after his father, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.
She gave up her job for a time and gave birth to her second son, Peter Michael McCartney, on 7 January 1944. The family then moved to a 'prefab' bungalow in Roach Avenue, Knowsley.
Because Mary was a Catholic, both her sons were baptised as Catholics, but they weren't sent to Catholic schools.
Due to the family's limited finances as Jim's job was not a well-paid one, Mary returned to her profession and became a part-time health visitor. She then became a domiciliary midwife, which meant that the family were given a council house at a nominal rent. Initially this was at 72 Western Avenue, Speke.
Paul was to say, 'My mum was the upwardly mobile force. She was always moving us to a better address; originally we had to go out to the sticks of Liverpool because of her work as a midwife. Roads were unmade but the midwife's house came free. So economically it was a good idea. She always wanted to move out of rough areas.'
He also said, 'I had a broad scouse accent, talking real broad like the rest of the kids round our way. She told me off about it.'
Paul remembered that his mum whistled a lot and recalled, 'That's one of my fond memories of my mum. You don't hear many women whistling. She was quite musical.'
She also travelled to her duties (she was on call 24 hours a day) by bicycle in her navy-blue uniform and hat as the family couldn't afford a car.
Mary had aspirations for her sons, wanting them to move up in life and she encouraged Paul to speak properly, which resulted in him not having a strong Liverpool accent. She also had dreams of Paul becoming a doctor.
Due to Mary's job, the family were able to move into Forthlin Road in the Ailerton area in 1955, which was much nearer to Liverpool centre than Speke.
In the summer of 1955 she began experiencing pains in her chest and started taking large doses of BiSodol, which was merely an antacid powder. The following summer her 12-year-old son Michael came into the bedroom and found her crying. When he asked her what the matter was, she said, 'Nothing, love.'
Breast cancer was diagnosed and she was taken to the Northern Hospital, where she underwent a mastectomy operation, which actually exacerbated the condition. When Paul, Mike and their father went to visit her in hospital they were startled by her appearance. Paul said that it was 'a huge shock to us, suddenly she was ill, we were very young'. Paul and Mike then went to stay with their Uncle Joe and Auntie Joan.
Mary was to tell her sister-in-law, 'I would have liked to have seen the boys grow up.'
On 31 October 1956 when the boys woke up to get ready for school, Joan told them, 'Love, your mum's dead.'
Mary was 47 years old; Paul was 14 and Mike 12.
On 3 November 1956 Mary was buried at Yew Tree Cemetery in Finch Lane, Huyton.
On hearing of his mother's death, Paul cried himself to sleep and prayed for her to come back. He described them as: 'Daft prayers, you know, if you bring her back I'll be very, very good for always. I thought, it just shows how stupid religion is. See, the prayers didn't work when I really needed them.'
But his mother's death caused Paul to find solace in a guitar his father had recently bought for him as his brother Mike recalls. 'It was just after Mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother - and you find a guitar.'
Paul was to pay tribute to her in 'Let It Be' with the reference to 'mother Mary' and in 'Lady Madonna' when he sings about 'children at her feet'. Mike McCartney also paid tribute when he placed a photograph of her on the cover of his first solo album.
Paul's first daughter Mary was also named after his mother.
In 1984, during a television interview, Paul discussed his mother's death. 'I was fourteen. It's a very difficult age, fourteen, because you are growing up and you're getting your act together. So it was a tough time to have something as devastating as that happen. I think I probably covered a lot of it up at the time, as you would, a fourteen-year-old boy."
Harry, Bill. "McCartney, Mary Patricia (mother)" The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books, Copyright 2003∼Mother of Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Born in 1909 to Owen Mohin and his wife, Mary Teresa (Danher) Mohin. Married to James McCartney (1902-1976). Mother of James Paul and Peter Michael. Mary was a nurse/midwife and often went to calls on her bicycle. Her husband James was a fireman during the war years and also worked as a salesman in cotton. They met at his sisters house during an air raid. Pauls first daughter with his wife Linda (Eastman) is named after her.
Mary had an elder brother, Wilf, and a younger brother and sister, Bill and Agnes. Agnes died at the age of two. Mary's mother also died giving birth in January 1919 and the baby died with her.
Mary became a nurse at Alder Hey Hospital at the age of fourteen. When her father remarried, Mary couldn't get on with Rose, her stepmother, and she moved out of the family home at the age of eighteen and settled in with other relatives.
Mary was to become a nursing sister at the age of 24 after she'd moved to Walton Hospital.
Mike McCartney recalls that her patients knew his mother as 'the Angel'.
It was while Mary was a nurse at Walton Hospital that she was acquainted with Jim's sister Jin, who had recently been married to Harry Harris, and she dropped by to see them at the McCartney family home in 11 Scargreen Avenue, West Derby where she met Jim McCartney. There was a Luftwaffe air raid that night, so Mary and Jim spent the evening huddled together downstairs in the house.
On 15 April 1941 she married James McCartney at St Swithins Roman Catholic Chapel in Gill Moss, Liverpool. Mary was 31 years old while James was 38. The couple moved into furnished rooms at Sunbury Road, Anfield, which was Paul's first home.
Mary gave birth to her first son, James Paul McCartney, on 18 June 1942 and was given a private ward at Walton Hospital due to the fact that she'd previously been the sister in charge of the maternity section. The baby was named after his father, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.
She gave up her job for a time and gave birth to her second son, Peter Michael McCartney, on 7 January 1944. The family then moved to a 'prefab' bungalow in Roach Avenue, Knowsley.
Because Mary was a Catholic, both her sons were baptised as Catholics, but they weren't sent to Catholic schools.
Due to the family's limited finances as Jim's job was not a well-paid one, Mary returned to her profession and became a part-time health visitor. She then became a domiciliary midwife, which meant that the family were given a council house at a nominal rent. Initially this was at 72 Western Avenue, Speke.
Paul was to say, 'My mum was the upwardly mobile force. She was always moving us to a better address; originally we had to go out to the sticks of Liverpool because of her work as a midwife. Roads were unmade but the midwife's house came free. So economically it was a good idea. She always wanted to move out of rough areas.'
He also said, 'I had a broad scouse accent, talking real broad like the rest of the kids round our way. She told me off about it.'
Paul remembered that his mum whistled a lot and recalled, 'That's one of my fond memories of my mum. You don't hear many women whistling. She was quite musical.'
She also travelled to her duties (she was on call 24 hours a day) by bicycle in her navy-blue uniform and hat as the family couldn't afford a car.
Mary had aspirations for her sons, wanting them to move up in life and she encouraged Paul to speak properly, which resulted in him not having a strong Liverpool accent. She also had dreams of Paul becoming a doctor.
Due to Mary's job, the family were able to move into Forthlin Road in the Ailerton area in 1955, which was much nearer to Liverpool centre than Speke.
In the summer of 1955 she began experiencing pains in her chest and started taking large doses of BiSodol, which was merely an antacid powder. The following summer her 12-year-old son Michael came into the bedroom and found her crying. When he asked her what the matter was, she said, 'Nothing, love.'
Breast cancer was diagnosed and she was taken to the Northern Hospital, where she underwent a mastectomy operation, which actually exacerbated the condition. When Paul, Mike and their father went to visit her in hospital they were startled by her appearance. Paul said that it was 'a huge shock to us, suddenly she was ill, we were very young'. Paul and Mike then went to stay with their Uncle Joe and Auntie Joan.
Mary was to tell her sister-in-law, 'I would have liked to have seen the boys grow up.'
On 31 October 1956 when the boys woke up to get ready for school, Joan told them, 'Love, your mum's dead.'
Mary was 47 years old; Paul was 14 and Mike 12.
On 3 November 1956 Mary was buried at Yew Tree Cemetery in Finch Lane, Huyton.
On hearing of his mother's death, Paul cried himself to sleep and prayed for her to come back. He described them as: 'Daft prayers, you know, if you bring her back I'll be very, very good for always. I thought, it just shows how stupid religion is. See, the prayers didn't work when I really needed them.'
But his mother's death caused Paul to find solace in a guitar his father had recently bought for him as his brother Mike recalls. 'It was just after Mother's death that it started. It became an obsession. It took over his whole life. You lose a mother - and you find a guitar.'
Paul was to pay tribute to her in 'Let It Be' with the reference to 'mother Mary' and in 'Lady Madonna' when he sings about 'children at her feet'. Mike McCartney also paid tribute when he placed a photograph of her on the cover of his first solo album.
Paul's first daughter Mary was also named after his mother.
In 1984, during a television interview, Paul discussed his mother's death. 'I was fourteen. It's a very difficult age, fourteen, because you are growing up and you're getting your act together. So it was a tough time to have something as devastating as that happen. I think I probably covered a lot of it up at the time, as you would, a fourteen-year-old boy."
Harry, Bill. "McCartney, Mary Patricia (mother)" The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia. Virgin Books, Copyright 2003∼Mother of Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Born in 1909 to Owen Mohin and his wife, Mary Teresa (Danher) Mohin. Married to James McCartney (1902-1976). Mother of James Paul and Peter Michael. Mary was a nurse/midwife and often went to calls on her bicycle. Her husband James was a fireman during the war years and also worked as a salesman in cotton. They met at his sisters house during an air raid. Pauls first daughter with his wife Linda (Eastman) is named after her.
