John Davies had a wife and child

John Davies
Event Type     Marriage Banns
Event Date     16 Mar 1879
Event Place     Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales
Spouse's Name     Mary Edwards

The newspaper reported John Davies had a wife and child - that's all, no names. The entry above is interesting because Mary and her husband don't appear in the 1881 census.

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'.

John Davies of Brymbo didn't exist? So who's this?

Jack the Ripper.John Davies, collier, of  Brymbo, died in a mining accident. Is this the husband of Mary Kelly and said not to exist? If so Mary Kelly had a child.
"c. 1879: At the age of 16 she marries a collier named Davies. He is killed in an explosion two or three years later. There is a suggestion that there might have been a child in this marriage."
According to the family records he was twenty six when he died and born in 1854. As he died in June 1880 that's a five month window to find his place and date of birth date and through him discover 'Mary Kelly'.

Mary Kelly. The man killed in the mine. John Davies.

Mary Kelly. The man killed in the mine. John Davies.

Name:             DAVIES John

Age: 27

Date: 29/01/1880

Year:   1880

Occupation:    Collier

Colliery:         Westminster

Owner:            Westminster and Brymbo Coal & Coke Co Ltd

Town: Wrexham

County:           Denbighshire

Notes:             Fall of roof. Died 5th June.

Birth 1854

John Davies

Event Type     Burial

Event Date     09 Jun 1880

Event Place    Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales

BRYMBO DENBIGHSHIRE

12th February 1880

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Friday last, incidence. John Davies seriously hurt in one odd serious accident at work - Westminster and Brymbo Coal & Coke Co Ltd. Fall of roof. Other workers involved in work accidents are Penrhos, one called Richard Owens - two members at Bethel (W). It is good that I understand that they are now improved in Rhagorol, Gohebydd.

The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard

18th June 1880

Family Notices

Death Notices

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DAVIES—June 5, aged 26, at Brymbo, John Davies.

EDWARDS—June 8, aged 66, Mr. William Edwards. Tan-y-Bryn, Sion, Ysceifiog, formerly assistant over-seer of that parish.

HUGHS—June 7, aged 17, the son of Evan Hughes . . . 

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