Jim And Mary Mc Cartney
James "Jim" McCartney (7 July 1902 – 18 March 1976) and Mary Patricia McCartney (née Mohin) (29 September 1909 – 31 October 1956) were the parents of musician, author and artist Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Wings, and photographer and musician Mike McCartney, who worked with the Scaffold.
Like many families in Liverpool, the McCartney and Mohin families are of Irish descent. Jim worked for most of his life in the cotton trade, as well as playing in ragtime and jazz bands in Liverpool, while Mary was a trained nurse and midwife.
The McCartney family lived in council houses during Mary's life, but Paul later bought his father a house called Rembrandt, in Heswall, Cheshire. Jim encouraged his two sons to take up music by buying instruments for them to learn, as well as improving their status in life through education. Mary was Paul's inspiration for the song, "Let It Be". After Mary's death, Jim married Angela Williams and adopted her daughter from a previous marriage, Ruth McCartney.
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