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The Walton sextuplets were born in Liverpool, England on 18 November 1983 and were the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, and the world's fourth known set of surviving sextuplets. The children are Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jennifer.
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The children were born to Graham and Janet (née Timperley) Walton (born 1952) who had been trying to have children for several years and had just been accepted as potential adoptive parents before their thirteenth attempt at fertility treatment bore spectacular results. The children grew up in the family's seven-bedroom home in Wallasey, Merseyside. On 13 June 2011 the sextuplets were featured in the ITV1 programme Moving On.
Sarah gave birth to the first grandchild—Jorgie—on October 7, 2014.
In February 2015, Janet Walton's book "Six Little Miracles: The heartwarming true story of raising the world’s first sextuplet girls" was published by Ebury Press.
Children
All six children were delivered by Caesarian section at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool at 31 and a half weeks gestation. In order of birth, and with their weight at birth the sextuplets are: