Valerie Barlow (née Tatlock) was Ken Barlow's first wife and mother of Peter and Susan. Valerie moved to Coronation Street in 1961 to live with her uncle Albert Tatlock when her parents moved to Glasgow. It was then that she started dating Ken and, despite their different educational backgrounds and outlooks on life, they fell in love and got married in 1962. Peter and Susan were born three years later.