Ernest Popplewell was the first tenant of 7 Coronation Street in 1902. A widower since his wife Mary's death of scarlet fever, Ernest had four children but all one were abandoned to the parish as children. Now 64, Ernest lived with his son Harry and his family: wife Clara and children Emily and Herbert. Ernest first appeared in Daran Little and Bill Hill's "Weatherfield Life", published in 1992. Other information is derived from Little's follow-up book, "Around the Coronation Street Houses".