Hiya,
Thanks for your reply and help. So after comparing theme files and basically copying them for myself I randomly came across the problem.
I had a plugin that disabled the blog by redirecting, and deactivating that brought my results back. Weird because I really thought the problem was my theme because the results loaded with Storefront.
Interestingly, without the conflict, my results page template file was is archive-product. With the conflict the results page was search/index.
I vow to learn and study WordPress inside and out before embarking on my next big project…
Thank you so much to both of you ??
Rachel