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Hi.  I posted the original post.  I was able to find my husband's great-grandfather on a ship's passanger list using the  site TheShipsList.  It listed him as James King, cattletender.  I now know exactly when he came.  You might be able to find your immigrant ancestor using the same site.  Give it a try.

Just to catch you up on the success of my search.  The insight that Florence Roberts might instead be Emma Florence Roberts was confirmed by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.  Armed with this addition to Florence's name, I was able to find a new marriage record for her to William Edward Eliiott in Birkenhead, England, which took place 23 Aug 1923. She is listed on this marriage record as a widow.  This marriage took place 1 week after Sidney's death, which tells me there was  a relationship between William and Emma Florence previous to Sidney's death, though it also confirms that Emma Florence and Sidney were not divorced.  Now knowing that her name from her 2nd marriage was Elliott, I was able to find and send for a death record.  Emma Florence Roberts Gott Elliott died in Birkenhead on 10 Sept 1932.  Her 2nd husband pre-deceased her. 
Thanks for everyone's help.  The success of my search shows how important a correct name is. She was never known as Emma Florence but she used her birth name on her marriage records and it shows on her death record.  It also shows on the one ship manifest I was able to find her on. 

My husband's great-grandfather was born in Old Deer, Aberdeenshire in 1858.  His parents were quite poor; they were unlanded and his father was a ploughman.  This great-grandfather of my husbands was named James Ferguson Blaikie King.  This seems like an awfully grand name for the 6th child in a family of 8 children born to poor parents.  On the birth record, his name is shown as James King. Would his name be shown in official records as James King, when his whole name was James Ferguson Blaikie King?   Ferguson and Blaikie are not family names, as I have been able to determine.  Was this common practice in the mid-1800's in Scotland, to have such involved names?  Since he came to America, there have been two of his descendants named James Ferguson Blaikie King(2nd and 3rd).  Family story has it that the Blaikie was named after a well known professor at University of Edinburgh.  Seems unlikely in a poor family with minimal education.  Any ideas on the name or naming conventions?

My husband's great-grandparents were born in the United States in the 1860's but they moved to Europe in about 1893/94 to pursue a fish merchant business.   They both died in England.  I obtained a death record for my husband's great-grandfather, Sidney Ulysses Grant Gott for 17 August 1923 in Birkenhead with the help of someone on this board.   English directories show Sidney living in the Birkenhead area from about 1908 to 1923.  It is his wife I still can't find.  Her name was Emma Florence Gott but she went by the name of Florence.  Her granddaughter, who is still alive at 92 years old, says that her grandmother also died in England in about 1932.  Her granddaughter also believes that Florence may have remarried.  I can't find any death record or a re-marrige record in the BMD index, but maybe it hasn't been transcribed yet.  Any suggestions or assistance in finding her death record would be appreciated.