 On 1 April 1958, Ivan married eighteen-year-old Linda Tanner and the pair settled in Warrington.Hard-working Ivan saw it as his duty to provide for his wife and preferred that Linda didn't work.Linda fled to her home town Weatherfield to stay with her mum Elsie Tanner, telling her she wasn't returning to Ivan, but when he followed her to get her back, she admitted she was pregnant.