Hello Len, thank you so much for this information, this makes this Thomas Looney the older Brother of my Archibald Looney, he was a Lead Miner too,

I can't find a Baptism on the IGI for, Christopher Looney c1841

is Christopher the Son of, Thomas Looney and Margaret Shimmin,

as the 2nd marriage to Mary Kelly is in 1844

Averil