In the meantime...I am getting quietly excited
Working on the possibility that (big leap until proved) Samuel and George could be brothers. There is a family in both 1891 and 1901 headed up by a Charles Stewart and wife Rebecca:
1891 - all the children born in Bothwell Lanark:
Charles Stewart 36 coal miner b. Calder lanark
Rebaaca Stewart 38 b. Calder lanark
Charles Stewart 14
Thomas Stewart 10
William Stewart 8
Samuel Stewart 6
George Stewart 6
James Stewart 3
James McFarlan 23 relative, coal miner b. Glasgow
John Carberry 17 boarder
Address: Potts Land Crossgates, Bothwell Lanark
1901:
Charles Stewart 45 coal miner
Rebacca Stewart 47
Charles Stewart 24
William Stewart 18
W Samuel Stewart 16
George Stewart 16
James Stewart 13
Robert Stewart 8
David Stewart 8
Mary Stewart 9
Rebacca Stewart 4
Address: New Orbiston Rows, Bothwell Lanark
The family looks to be at this time a coal mining family, with the older boys in 1901 also working in a variety of mining jobs.
I think the mother is a McFarlane by maiden name and possible marriage for parents in 1872 as showing here
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTB5-Z8XFrom this family group, also possibility that George and Samuel may be twins? Possible birth regs for both in Bothwell 1885.
So, we could have the source of the name Rebecca McFarlane Stewart coming from the paternal grandmother side....but as always for now, just guesses until it can be confirmed really
Monica