Relationship: Maternal Grandmother of John Lennon
187? - 1941

Annie was born in Chester.

Annie's parents were Welsh - her mother was from the north and her father from the south. Her father, John, was a solicitor's clerk. He was at one time a personal clerk to one of the Earls of Shrewsbury. He and his family lived in a former town house of the Earl, what is now the famous Bear and Billet Inn at 94 Lower Bridge Street, Chester, and it's where Annie was actually born.

Annie met and married George Ernest Stanley, but their first two children, a boy and a girl, died as infants. They then had five healthy daughters, Mary, Elizabeth, Anne Georgina, Julia and Harriet. Annie has been described as the centre of the family of girls, its strength.