Widow and child

The Herts. Advertiser & St. Albans Times on 10.11 describes Kelly's son as around 10-11 years of age and adds: "The story of the crime current among the neighbours is that this morning - what time cannot at present be ascertained, but at any rate after daylight - she took a man home to her own room, presumably for an immoral purpose."

This stated age of the child would tie in with Mary's, John Davies's death, (1880) and reported to leave a widow and child -'who will be well tended by the Friendly Society'.