How about a ship board marriage....Think I may have seen where the burials at sea are in the achives ....how about the marriages...
Guy my computer is just too slow to do deep investigation (hope to get a dish for it soon $$$)
Marriage and then a nice cruise for the honeymoon....
Shipboard marriage? The Black Star Line, established by Nkrumah had some 14 cargo ships that initially carried mostly cocoa to ports around the world.
Back aways there are a couple of stories how certain ships from the Line carried people from the US to Ghana. I don’t know when that started, the shipping line brochure is dated 1965, and the ‘Afram River’ is quoted as making her maiden voyage in the ‘early sixties’ - notice, Malcolm X brother met the ship on one occasion. He is described as the son of ‘Garveyites’ - after Marcus Garvey.
Ghana ‘gained’ independence in 1957. One of the first acts by Nkrumah was to re-establish the Black Star Line. Cargo ships from the line departing from the US side of the Great Lakes would have crossed the Atlantic heading back to Ghana.
IMO she was on her own. Pregnant.Banished to Ghana.