The only thing that is truly certain about Mary Jane Kelly life was that she died on November 9, 1888. Most of her life is shroud in mystery and filled with stories she told but supported by little evidence. Her former lover Barrett had the task of recounting her life during the investigation into her murder. It was said that she hailed from Limerick, Ireland. Mary suggested she had several brothers and sisters and some extended family that she at one time lived with, in Wales before she settled in East London’s Whitechapel district. She at one time had also married a man that supposedly died in a mining accident. Overall she was considered a good looking woman and when not under the effects of drunkenness was viewed as a charming, and likable
