Norval Sinclair Marley and Cedella Malcolm gave birth to Robert Nesta Marley on February 6, 1945, at his maternal grandfather’s farm in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Norval Marley was from Crowborough, East Sussex, England, and a resident of Clarendon Parish at the time of his marriage to Cedella Malcolm, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old.
Norval claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines; at the time of his marriage to Cedella Malcolm, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old, he was employed as a plantation overseer. Bob Marley’s full name is Robert Nesta Marley, though some sources give his birth name as Nesta Robert Marley, citing a story about a Jamaican passport official who reversed Marley’s first and middle names when he was still a boy because Nesta sounded like a girl’s name.
Norval supported his wife and child financially, but he rarely saw them because he was frequently away.
Bob Marley attended Stepney Primary and Junior High School, which is located in Saint Ann’s catchment area. Bob Marley’s father died of a heart attack in 1955, when he was ten years old. Marley’s mother later married Edward Booker, an American civil servant, giving Marley two half-brothers: Richard and Anthony.
Bob Marley grave: Where was Bob Marley buried?
Robert “Bob” Nesta Marley was laid to rest in the parish cemetery of Saint Ann in Nine Miles, Jamaica, in 1981.
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