Editing Mike McCartney (section)

==Early years==
Michael and his brother [[Paul McCartney|Paul]] were both born in the [[Walton Centre]] in [[Walton, Liverpool]], England, where their mother, Mary McCartney, had previously worked as a nursing sister in charge of the maternity ward.<ref name="MilesPage4">Miles 1998 p. 4</ref><ref name="SpitzPage75">Spitz 2005 p. 75</ref> Michael was not enrolled in a Catholic school because his father, Jim McCartney, believed that they leaned too much towards religion instead of education.<ref name="MilesPage4"/> At age 17, McCartney started his first job at Jackson's the Tailors in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. The year after, he took an apprenticeship at Andre Bernard, a ladies' hairdresser in the same street.<ref>[http://www.iol.ie/~beatlesireland/zBeatlesfactfiles/factfilesx1/TheMcCartneys/MikeMcCartney(McGear).htm Mike McCartney biog on Beatles Ireland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516212244/http://www.iol.ie/~beatlesireland/zBeatlesfactfiles/factfilesx1/TheMcCartneys/MikeMcCartney(McGear).htm |date=16 May 2008 }} iol.ie/~beatlesireland- Retrieved 16 October 2007</ref>