Her baptimal record does not give her date of birth. However, as it was normal practice to baptise children a few weeks or even a few days after their birth and as she was baptised on 5 May she was almost certainly born in April. It is assumed that she was born in the house in Penport, Altarnun where her parents lived all their married lives.

Address: Altarnun, Cornwall

As her parents names are recorded in the register entry it is virtually certain that they were present at her baptism.

In the 1851, 1871 and 1881 Censuses Amelia is shown as milliner. In the 1871 and 1881 Censuses she is also shown as a dressmaker.

Address: 2 St Aubyn Ope

Although the census return for the address records Amelia's husband, John, on the night of the census he was an in-patient at the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport. Thus on the night of the Census the household consisted of Amelia and John and Amelia's children Jessie (age 23), Eveline (age 19), Alfred (age 16) and Richard (age 12). John and Amelia's other daughter, Clara, was working as a general servant at the Kings Head Hotel in Marlborough Street and she spent the night there although it was only a few minutes walk from her parent's home. St Aubyn Ope was probably a close as it contained 7 dwellings and workshop. Numbers 4 and 6 were occupied by 3 families and number 5 by two families so the houses were probably a reasonable size. The family had No 2 to themselves.

Address: 1 Abbey Place

The household consisted of Amelia, her three children Clara, Alfred and Fred, and her two grandsons Ernest and Harry who were actually Clara's children although the census records them as Amelia's children presumably because they were both illegitimate and their mother is single. The family had two rooms in a six roomed house. How they managed in two rooms defies imagination. The other four rooms were occupied by a family of 5. Amelia is described as being of independent means which presumably means that she was living on saving that her husband John had accumulated during his lifetime although her three children who were all working almost certainly contributed to the household income.

Cause: senile decay and cardiac failure

Address: 27 Edgcumbe Place

She was living with her daughter Clara and son-in-law Edward Williams prior to her death and they were with her when she died.

Address: Devonport, Devon

Address: Plymouth, Devon

Although the note on the back of the photoghaph of John Luscombe (Amelia's husband) says that she was buried with her father Samuel Sleep in the Churchyard (of St Nonna) in Altarnun a confirmatory source has not been found. It is thought unlikely that the family could have afforded the cost of taking her body back to Altarnun and it is more likely that she was buried in Ford Park Cemetery. Until her burial register entry is found the date and place of her burial is speculative.

John Luscombe (1821-1883)

John Henry Sleep Luscombe (1851-1871?)

Jessy Eleanor Luscombe (1856-1890)

Clara Amelia Luscombe (1858-1927)

Eveline Elizabeth Luscombe (1861-1947)

Alfred Samuel Don Luscombe (1865- )

Fredrick Ernest D. Luscombe (1867-1906)

Richard Luscombe (1869- )

Address: Stoke Damerel, Devon

The 1851 Census shows that James Dowell was a 52 year old shoemaker and Grace Algar a 60 year old widow - unlikely friends for the young couple so it is assumed that they were casual witnesses and unrelated to John and Amelia. It is thought unlikely that any of their relatives who lived in Totnes and Alternun would have attended the wedding. At the time of their marriage John, who had moved to Devonport to work at Keyham Steam Yard, was lodging with Joseph Rickard at 9 James Street (Joseph was a joiner) whilst Amelia was staying in a lodging house at 5 Marlborough Street run by Thomas Whole and his wife Jane. Thomas was a carpenter. Why Amelia moved from Altarnun to Devonport is not known but as both Thomas and Jane came from Cornwall (unfortunately the 1851 Census is not more specific) there may have been some contact prior to moving and an indication that work was to be had in Devonport (she was a milliner). John and Amelia may have met through Joseph Rickard and Thomas Whole who were both woodworkers knowing each other, or it may have been through a chance encounter.

Address: 14 Marlborough Street

The household consisted of John, his wife Amelia and their three month old son John. Amelia is working as a milliner and a dressmaker almost certainly at home so that she could look after her son John white her husband was at work. They shared the house with 3 other families. How many rooms they had is not known but they were probably living in a single room. There was also a tenement with another couple. In all 15 people were living in the house.

Address: 23 Marlborough Street

The household consisted of John, his wife Amelia and their children John (age 10), Jessy (age 4) and Clara (age 2). They shared the house with another family of 3. The size of the house is unknown. The house was flanked on one side by a cabinet maker's showroom and the other by an ironmongers which had closed down.

Address: 23, Marlborough Street

The household consisted of John, his wife Amelia, and their children Jessie (age 15), Clara (age 12), Eveline (age 10), Alfred (age 6), and Frederick (age 4). All the children except for Jessie were attending school. The family were now the sole occupants of the house. (In the previous Census they has shared it with another family.)