My ancestor was baptized as Emily Stuart on 18 May 1794 in Douglas, Lanarkshire, to Duncan Stewart and Isabel Neilson. I am fairly certain this is her as no other girls with that name were baptized in the same time period/area.
She was married on 28 Jan 1810 as Emily Stuart to William Sommerville in Lanark, Lanarkshire and both residing in Lanark.
She had my ancestor, Duncan, in 1821 in New Lanark and he ended up moving to South Knapdale, Argyll, where he married Catherine Morrison in 1839. Emily is known as “Emilia” or “Amelia” on her children’s baptism records and family members named their daughters “Amelia” in her honor so Emily must be the Anglicized name.
I completely lose Emily/Amelia in the records after Duncan is born in 1821 (she had William, Isabella, John, and James before Duncan). I can’t find her in the parish records, census records --I can’t find her husband, and I can’t find either of their burials. There is an “Amelia Sommervell” working in a cotton factory in Lanark, Lanarkshire in 1841, born about 1796, but I don’t recognize any of the children: Alex, Hugh, John, and Mary with the oldest being born in 1825. These could be younger children of Amelia’s but I can’t find their baptisms in the parish register?
Could anyone provide some insight?