The Ancestors of Henry DeGraw from The Herrick Family

Some Amazing Co-incidences   I n 1942, during World War II, two quite separate but co-incidental things happened.    An American ship. " Axel Johnston ", left Greenock Port near Glasgow, in Scotland,    in October 1942, on board was a young American, Henry DeGraw. Their destination was New York. In 1944, another ship " The Isle de France "    visited New York, and collected eight servicemen.    She left for "ports unknown" in the Southern Pacific.    The rest was "secret", one of the eight, was a young Scot, Iain MacCraine.   Why was he in New York?    He enlisted aged 16, in the Merchant Navy, and he was mentioned as AWOL in Gibraltar, before returning to Glasgow and joining the British Army, aged 18. He was young, injured and in a New York hospital, and fell in love with Muriel, a young American girl.    He wanted to marry her, but her father did not approve of a Presbyterian marryin...