Marie Ramsden Marie Ramsden ( née Lancaster ) was the mother of Jamie Ramsden and wife of Eddie . Marie crossed paths with several Coronation Street residents in her quest to claim custody of Jamie in 1990 . Marie had lived in the street next to Eddie . Jamie was born out of wedlock on 30th November 1988 ; Eddie wanted to marry but Marie , suffering post - natal depression , rejected her son and threatened to dump him on the police station steps . Taking her behaviour at face value , Eddie cut ties with Marie and started raising Jamie as a single father , with his mother looking after the baby while Eddie worked on the building sites . After seeing a psychiatrist , Marie recovered from her depression and tried to get in touch with Eddie . Marie wasn ' t seeking a reconciliation and was interested solely in Jamie but in the wake of her prior behaviour , Eddie , Mrs Ramsden and Eddie ' s current girlfriend Tina Fowler made sure that she didn ' t get to see her son . Fearing that Marie or her brothers would try to snatch Jamie , Tina arranged with Bet Gilroy to put him up at the Rovers until the situation blew over , passing him off as her own to Marie when she overheard Alec mention a baby at the establishment . Marie quickly discovered this to be a lie and tried to recover Jamie from the Rovers by force , with her brother Carl supporting her , only backing down when Bet made her see that it would look bad in court . To strengthen his case against Marie in an anticipated custody battle , Eddie got engaged to Tina and booked a registry office wedding for the following week , but after a conversation with Marie he changed his mind and reconciled with her instead . For a while , Jamie had some stability with his parents at their Clarence Street home , where they moved after getting married . However , after a while Eddie started treating Marie like a baby - sitter while he went out with his mates , and later in the year he was handed a prison sentence for hitting a policeman at the Railwayman ' s Arms . Marie took the opportunity to leave Eddie , making sure that he wouldn ' t be able to trace her when he regained his freedom . Moving into a tower block at Maxton Walk , Marie couldn ' t work because of Jamie , and had to get by on the £40 a week she received from the social . In November 1990 , Marie and Jamie were given a lift home by taxi driver Don Brennan , who remembered them from their earlier visits to Coronation Street . After seeing where she lived , Don let Marie off with the fare . He became her regular driver to and from the hospital , where Jamie met a physiotherapist three times a week because of a bad hip . Horrified at her living conditions , and worried for Jamie ' s health , Don never charged her for the journeys , telling her that seeing Jamie smile was enough satisfaction . For a few weeks , Don was a regular caller at the flat , stopping for tea after dropping Marie and Jamie off and helping Marie with her shopping . Marie was glad to have company besides Jamie and a chance to take her mind off her problems for a while , and after a while she confided in him that she ' d left Eddie , having previously let him believe that Eddie had walked out on them . However , they exchanged cross words when Don surreptitiously slipped Marie £20 and later when he discussed Eddie being in prison with Bet Gilroy . When Don paid Marie ' s £91 gas bill to prevent her from being cut off , Marie offered to have sex with him , assuming that he ' d been after that from the start . This stunned Don , who had just wanted to help her out and told her that she was worth more than that . To ensure that there was no further misunderstanding between them , Don immediately told Ivy Brennan about Marie and they visited her together . After seeing Marie and Jamie ' s living conditions for herself , Ivy made the suggestion that they stay at 5 Coronation Street over Christmas . Marie agreed , and once there took the opportunity to get away from Jamie for a night and go out to see her old girlfriends from where she used to work . On Christmas Day , Marie clashed with Ivy when she fed Jamie toffee before dinner . Marie told Ivy that Jamie wouldn ' t be having turkey as he didn ' t like it , but Ivy dismissed this and took charge , confiscating his Smarties tube . Marie decided that the Brennans were becoming too interfering and returned home to the flat immediately . She had no further contact with either of them .