Julia Baird

Julia Baird (née Dykins) (born 5 March 1947) is the younger half-sister of English musician John Lennon and is the eldest daughter of John 'Bobby' Albert Dykins (1918 – December 1965) and Julia Lennon (12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958). she also had an older half-sister, Ingrid Pedersen. Her younger sister was Jacqueline 'Jackie' Dykins (born 26 October 1949).

Lennon started visiting the Dykins' house in 1951. After the death of Julia Lennon in 1958, Harriet and Norman Birch were appointed guardians of Julia and Jackie, ignoring Dykins' parentage, as he had never legally married their mother. Lennon invited the Dykins sisters to visit after the success of the Beatles, when he was living in Kenwood, Weybridge, with his then-wife, Cynthia Lennon.

Julia Dykins (Baird) married Allen Baird in 1968 and moved to Belfast. They had three children together but were divorced in 1981. Baird worked as a special needs teacher, and after Lennon's death she wrote John Lennon, My Brother (with Geoffrey Giuliano) and gave up working in 2004 to write Imagine This – Growing up with my brother John Lennon. She is now a director of Cavern City Tours in Liverpool.

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Last Pray

by: Jailbird

Agree to die.
Accept what is waiting for you beyond.
Accept that faith is your only guide through Heaven.
Pray, my Indian child.
Do your prayer,
And accept that death
Is only the continuance of life ...
... or the beginning of something new.
A new kind of play.
A conception of a new world.
Send your last prayer !
For, at last,
You'll never reach God
More closely !




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London’s new and immersive Live Odyssey announces collaboration with John Lennon’s family

NME 25 Mar 2025
Lennon’s sister Julia Baird will be unveiling a multi-sensory immersive exhibit dedicated to the late Beatle on its opening which “details the early years that shaped Lennon through to a ...
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