Bob Marley where he was born and about his father “norval sinclair marley”

Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Mile, a village located in the Jamaican parish of Saint Ann, in the interior of the country. The artist was the son of Norval Sinclair Marley, a 50-year-old white Jamaican army captain, born in May Pen, Clarendon, of Sussex English descent, and Cedella Booker, an eighteen-year-old girl, poor and black, also born in Nine Mile. Cedella and Norval were to be married on July 9, 1944, however, Norval did not marry, and left her pregnant, having returned to England. He did not meet his famous son Bob Marley, who after becoming an adult discovered he had a paternal half-sister, Constance Marley, whom his father had when he returned to England and married. The singer’s father died of a heart attack in 1955. That same year his mother married Toddy Livingstone, a black Jamaican, also from Nine Mile. In search of a better life, Bob Marley moved with his mother and stepfather to the capital of the country, Kingston, going to live in Trenchtown, the largest and most miserable slum in Jamaica, where Bob Marley was bullied, being rejected by blacks. because he is mulatto and short in stature. In 1964, Bob Marley’s maternal half-sister, Claudette Pearl Livingstone, was born. Bob was raised along with Bunny Wailer, born April 10, 1947, the son of his stepfather, who became best friends with him and considered him a brother.