Just to tidy away this posting ...
Ernest Sidney died in Prince George, British Columbia on 26 August 1978.
If you are also researching the Cockles, there is another Ernest who also travelled the high seas and appears on several landing manifests and port immigration forms.
I'm not sure how to identify as the parents of the children born to Anna after 1910 (Sidney) since this seems to be at the heart of the subsequent divorce in 1920!
What a sad tale was their marriage.
My sincere thanks to all who contributed to this thread.
