Mary Jane Kelly is Mary Jane Wilson

Mary Jane Kelly and her first born son William Bruce Wilson



Mary Jane Wilson ne. Mary Jane Kelly married Robert Wilson of Liverpool who deserted her and their daughter born 1880. She ended up in the workhouse and it's believed she followed her brother's niece Margaret Rawlinson to London for the wedding in 1886 of her sister Elizabeth Rawlinson to lawyer Oscar Ochse/Osborn. Margaret stayed and was married in Whitechapel in 1887 to Daniel Reardon by the City Missionary who knew Mary Jane Kelly.


Matches between Mary Jane Kelly and Mary Jane Wilson

1. List of matches to what we absolutely know is true about Mary Jane Kelly as in she died in Millers Court in 1888, or coincides with what we know could be true like her name.

-the name Mary Jane Kelly
-Irish roots
-family links to the West End of London and Whitechapel
-link to London prostitution/courtesans
-link to Thrawl Street and the City Missionary (MJW niece-in-law 'rescued' by marriage by Charles Pateman in 1887)
-disappeared at the right time
-link to Joseph Fleming (MJW descendant’s AncestryDNA familial DNA match with 2 Fleming 4th cousins from different branches)
-alcoholic

2. List of matches to the witness reports for MJK's origin and background story and family history.

Father John
Brother Henry
One sister
Brother Henry with military connections through marriage in this case, Dragoons and Hussars including one retired living in London until 1885.
Sister a "merchant traveling" to markets - milk dealer in this case
Well-off relatives - West End in-laws
Married - in 1872 vs c. 1880
Lost her husband - to desertion in this case
Mother of a child - born 1880 - so 2 in 1882 v 1885 as she purportedly told some witnesses
In the infirmary in 1884 - in Liverpool in this case, found in the street with daughter
Disowned by family - presumably for drunkenness in this case
Fond of sister - sister in Cheshire only one listed as friend in 1884 infirmary record, she died early 88 (hence absence at Mary's funeral)
Ironworker "father" - son's "godfather"/husband of son's recorded godmother
Female relative on the stage - in-law relation
Worked as a servant