Biography

Elsie was born at 4 Hurry Street, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, on the 19th October 1914 to John Gleave and Catherine Martha Johnson.

Her father John Gleave (born 11th April 1891) was a bombardier working as a laborer in the tin-works at the garrison of the 8th Battalion Royal Lancashire Artillery when Elsie was born. In civil life, he was a boiler-maker and lived at 3 Loxdale Street, son of William Cleave and Mary Kate Conroy, who married on the 10th June 1889 at St. Michael's parish church, Walton on the Hill.

In October 24th 1936 Elsie Gleave married Richard 'Dick' Starkey, confectioner, at St. Silas parish church, Toxteth. Both lived with Dick's parents until they found their own home. On July 7th 1940 their only child, Ringo Starr was born at 9 Madryn Street, Liverpool (as Richard Starkey).

In 1943, Dick left home and they divorced in October of that year; he visited occasionally as Elsie remained close to her former in-laws and remarried on April 17th 1953 to painter Harry Graves.

She died in 1987.
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