Another Ellam query from a different descendent. I can't believe how much time and money I have spent acquiring certificates etc and yet I fail to record data I can easily ask for. I guess there isn't the same challenge in it. My in-laws marriage for instance, I never needed their marriage certificate for anything and I knew they married in 1938 but now I have been given the date. (they are both deceased so couldn't ask and my husband, being a man for whom such dates has no interest wouldn't know). Anyway it seems Sidney Ellam is rather elusive. I have found a birth in 1920 for a Sidney Ellam to a Lockwood mother.which suggest the right one. the only other is 1930 and that is clearly wrong. Terry is convinced Sidney married in Huddersfield but I cannot find anything so think he probably leagally married in Scotland and had a service in the church in Huddersfield which Terry remembers. But Scottish records on Ancestry are a nightmare and I can't find anything. Fortunately his widow is still alive but not necessarily sympathetic to genealogy and I have to be careful what questions I ask.. He died and so did his son Morrison in Scotland, they lived in Airdrie. It isn't too urgent as I can phone his widow but if you are snowed in then like me (we have 113F heat which is keeping me in and lethargic) I thought it might appeal to someone. Jean in S. Australia.