I'm looking for relatives with this spelling,I've hit a brick wall,and only discovered that they had come here from england,I always thought,growing up they came from germany...maybe they came from both.The earlier years it was spelled Ell/then later they dropped one L.My great great gr.father spelled it with 2 L's and his tombstone has it spelled that way,all relatives later,spell it elwine.I can't find any info on him.There were never many Elwines to start,so it's difficult to find them now.