
Historical records matching Marie Jeanette Davies
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About Marie Jeanette Davies
“In loving memory of Marie Jeanette Kelly. None but the lonely hearts can know my sadness. Love lives forever.” Marie Jeanette Kelly was born at Limerick in Ireland on 25 August 1863. She was the daughter of John Kelly, an Irish ironworker and his wife Eliza Kelly (née Davies). The Kelly family moved to Wales when Marie was a child. There she married John Davies who died in a mining pit explosion on 14 April 1881. She worked in a tobacconists and then as a domestic servant before supplementing her income by working in a high-class brothel as a sex worker. Known as ‘Mary Kelly’ she was 25 years old when she was murdered" (bio by Debbie McCauley, 15 January 2021).
NOTE: Please do not add post-mortem images to this profile (or link to sources that do so). Most of the Whitechapel Murder victims had brutally hard lives and nowhere to turn, they were failed by society back then, much like many are today. They were the victims of violent crime and to see the pictures of their bodies so casually strewn across the internet reflects a systemic misogyny that saw police investigations fail to catch the murderer at the time and unfortunately is still demeaning these women today.
Marie Jeanette Davies's Timeline
1863 |
August 25, 1863
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Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
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1880 |
January 1880
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Llansamlet, Glamorgan, Wales (United Kingdom)
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1888 |
November 9, 1888
Age 25
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13 Miller's Court, [off Dorset Street], Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England (United Kingdom)
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November 19, 1888
Age 25
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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, [10 Row 66 No 66.], Leytonstone, Waltham Forest, Greater London, England (United Kingdom)
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