I'm sorting through my mass of research/information and filing into an easily discoverable system! Found these:
Strange confusion of names in this article:
THE MISERY AND VICE OF LONDON. 22 December 1888, Supplement
About a year ago he rented it to a woman who looked about 30. She was popular among the females of the neighbourhood, who shared her beer generously, as I have been tearfully informed, and went under the title of Mary Jane McCarthy. Her landlord knew that she had another name, Kelly, but her friends had not heard of it. It seems that there had been a Mr. Kelly, whom Mary Jane had married in the manner which is considered satisfactory in Whitechapel. They had not gone to the expense of a license, but published the fact of matrimony by living in one small room, and sharing joy and sorrow and drunkenness there together.
Mary Jane took up her residence in the little room in Miller Court when Kelly went away. Since then her life has been that of all the women around her, her drunkenness and the number of strange men she brought to her little room being the gauges by which her sisters in wretchedness measured her prosperity.
So excepting the newspaper at its journalistic researched best, I found this McCarthy/Kelly link. Mary Jane Kelly's father's first name was John -- apparently.
Mary Kelly
Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881
birth: 19 April 1864
0240, CASTLETOWN DISTRICT, LIMERICK, IRELAND
father: John Kelly
mother: Anne Mccarthy .....
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