Thread: Twomey or Toomey - Roman Catholic Records for London?

Hello, can anyone help whilst I still have some hair left?

My gg-grandmother Margaret Twomey was born in Holborn, City of London, in 1834. I can't find a baptism record for her, but her mother was Ellen (born about 1806), and according to Margaret's marriage cert her father was Jeremiah, a hairdresser.

In the censuses, Ellen gives her birthplace as Ireland (no county given), but Jeremiah does not appear in any of them (she's a widow by 1851, in 1841 Jeremiah isn't with her).

Margaret's older brother was Charles, born in 1832. There's a baptism record for Charles in St. Andrews Holborn (mother Ellen, father Charles a hairdresser of Saffron Hill, but I think the father's name must be an error). Charles later marries and states his father is Jeremiah a hairdresser.

Her younger brother Thomas was born abt 1846 - again no baptism record - and Thomas later marries and gives his father's name as Jeremiah, a barber, so this implies that Jeremiah was still alive in 1846 or thereabouts.

I did find a St Andrews Holborn baptism record for Eleanor Twomey (1816), whose father was Jeremiah (a hairdresser of Saffron Hill) and mother Ann. Eleanor may have been Jeremiah's sister, or perhaps a daughter by a previous marriage.

Ellen later entered the City Road Workhouse, and gives her religion as RC, so it seems likely that her children may have been baptised RC too, even though they all married in C of E churches. I don't know where Ellen and Jeremiah married or even her maiden name, nor when/where Jeremiah was born. I'd like to know if there are any RC Baptism/Marriage/Burial records available? And if so, does anyone have access to these?

A family story says that one of Margaret's forebears (who must surely be her father or maternal/paternal grandfather) was a surgeon at the battle of Trafalgar. I've drawn a blank there too!

The family were mostly illiterate and the various spellings of Twomey, Toomey, Twomay, Turmy etc crop up on their records.

Thanks very much.

Thank you Hazelnut for the help, it's much appreciated.
The Jeremiah Twomey you found in the census could well be the one, but all I have to go on is his name and being a hairdresser rather than a sailor... perhaps he was a barber on board ship!
The marriage is the right area of London but wrong spouse name, unless it was a prior marriage. What a shame that those older marriage records don't contain more detail

Hazlenut - our posts must have crossed in the post, forgive the pun!
My reply was re the marriage of Jeremiah and Margaret Sullivan.
The marriage to Ellen Collins was interesting though. I will check out the record... could the witnesses names have been Lynch? The name is ringing a bell somewhere and I'm sure I've come across them as neighbours or lodgers or something.

Thank you so much, again

Good idea Hazlenut, thank you - I can at least do some searches on that.