Mary Jane Kelly

Mary Jane Kelly was born in 1863 Limerick, Ireland. She moved to Wales because her father got a job in iron works. She married a man in 1879 called Davies (or Davis). He worked in a Mine. He was killed by a mine explosion in 1882. Between the years of 1882/83 she moved to Cardiff with her cousin, became a prostitute and became ill and nearly spent a year in infirmary. She arrived in London in 1884. Kelly moved to London.Kelly worked in a West End gay house. Kelly went to Paris for 2 weeks with a gentleman, but returned not liking France.
She was approximately 25 years old when she was killed. She was one of the White chapel murders and a victim to Jack the ripper. Everybody thought that she was very attractive. She was 5’ 7’’ and a bit stout. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. She lived in 13 Miller court was the back parlor 26 Dorset Street. Some people thought that she could speak Welsh.
John McCarthy the landlord of Miller court was sent a letter by Mary Jane Kelly’s mother in Ireland. She said “I never corresponded with her family”. The window was broke a few weeks ago before the murder of Mary Jane Kelly. By 1886 she was living in a different street (Colley's lodging house in Thrawl Street, Spitalfields).
Mary Jane Kelly died on the Friday 9th November 1888.