Joyce Tatlock

Joyce Tatlock is the first daughter of Alfred Tatlock, and the only child of his marriage to Rovers barmaid Edna Ellis.

Joyce's parents met when Alfred frequented the Rovers and got friendly with Edna, and the couple married in 1921, with Joyce following two years later. Joyce and her parents lived, in cramped conditions, at 1 Coronation Street with Albert and Bessie Tatlock, Joyce's paternal uncle and aunt.

However, Joyce contracted scarlet fever shortly after her birth and suddenly died; her mother also contracted the disease and died a few months afterwards. Her father moved away from Coronation Street into a cottage and became a station master on the Liverpool Road line. He later married Edith Brown in 1936 and together they had Joyce's half-sister, Valerie, in 1942.