AUDREY RADFORD KURT HERRIN Due 52615 FAMILY TREE

AUDREY RADFORD KURT HERRIN Due 5/26/15

FAMILY TREE Harry Herrin Kurt Herrin 1/29/1999 Cleveland, Ohio Michael Herrin 1/16/1969 Cleveland, Ohio Married: 9/9/89 Amy Schumacher 5/25/70 Cleveland, Ohio Paul Herrin 10/ 11 /1944 Liverpool, England Married: 9/20/1963 Julie Brown 11/26/1945 Cleveland, Ohio 5/8/1917 Married: 4/1/1944 Divorced: 9/3/1970 Died: 1/23/1989 Audrey L. Radford 1/10/1924 Liverpool, England Died: 3/27/2004

1 ST IMMIGRANT • Audrey L. Radford • 1/10/1924 • Liverpool, England Reasons to Immigrate • WW 2 destruction • Husband lived in U. S.

1 ST IMMIGRANT (CONT. ) • Departed for the U. S. from Southampton, England on February 3 rd 1946 • My grandfather Paul Herrin was 1 years old • Audrey was 20 years old • Arrived on February 10 th 1946 in New York • Came through Ellis Island

LIFE IN ENGLAND • Worked as a clerk in Liverpool • August 28 1940 bombings began in Liverpool • Had to stop working eventually because the store was bombed • Audrey's mothers house was bombed during one of the raids • Audrey decided to move to America because it was too much to rebuild their lives in England Harry lived in the U. S.

LIFE IN THE U. S. • Audrey got married to Harry in England • Harry was in the U. S. Army during WW 2 and met Audrey while he was in it • Lived with Harry • Worked as a truck driver • Lived on E. 78 in Cleveland • Very poor

ENGLISH CUSTOMS • • Brought over customs of drinking tea Many types of soup recipes Her and her husband were both Lutheran Semi-formal wear

EFFECT ON MY FAMILY • First family to settle in Cleveland • Brought Lutheranism into my family • Brought English culture and customs into my family

1940 A YEAR IN REVIEW Blitzkrieg bombings of England

Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt

Warsaw Ghetto forms

Greece successfully resists Italy's attack

Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers

RESOURCES • "World War II. " Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n. d. Web. 25 May 2015. • "History of WW 2. " HISTORY. N. p. , n. d. Web. 25 May 2015.