Norval Marley is the husband of Cedella Editha Marley Booker and the father of Bob Marley∼He was a White Jamaican, notable for being the father of the reggae musician Bob Marley. Norval was born in Jamaica to Albert Thomas Marley, an Englishman whose family originated from from Little Worley, Essex, England, Civil Parish: South Weald and Ellen Marley née Broomfield. Norval was a British Jamaican, however it has been rumoured that he was also of distant Syrian Jewish heritage. During World War I he travelled to England where he joined the British Army in August 1916 at Liverpool, enlisting in the non-combatant Labour Corps (serving in the United Kingdom); he had previously been employed as a ferro-concreter in Cuba. Norval later claimed to be a captain in the Royal Marines.[citation needed] He was a plantation overseer, when in 1944 he married Cedella Malcolm, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old. Their relationship began when he was approximately 60 years old and she was 17. Marley's family was made up of British Jamaicans from the parish of Clarendon, but he relocated for work purposes to Saint Ann Parish where Cedella had grown up and resided. Cedella gave birth to their son Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley on 6 February 1945. No other children arose from this relationship and the couple separated after a short time. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them. Bob Marley never really came to know his father, who died when he was 10.
Norval Marley is the husband of Cedella Editha Marley Booker and the father of Bob Marley∼He was a White Jamaican, notable for being the father of the reggae musician Bob Marley. Norval was born in Jamaica to Albert Thomas Marley, an Englishman whose family originated from from Little Worley, Essex, England, Civil Parish: South Weald and Ellen Marley née Broomfield. Norval was a British Jamaican, however it has been rumoured that he was also of distant Syrian Jewish heritage. During World War I he travelled to England where he joined the British Army in August 1916 at Liverpool, enlisting in the non-combatant Labour Corps (serving in the United Kingdom); he had previously been employed as a ferro-concreter in Cuba. Norval later claimed to be a captain in the Royal Marines.[citation needed] He was a plantation overseer, when in 1944 he married Cedella Malcolm, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old. Their relationship began when he was approximately 60 years old and she was 17. Marley's family was made up of British Jamaicans from the parish of Clarendon, but he relocated for work purposes to Saint Ann Parish where Cedella had grown up and resided. Cedella gave birth to their son Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley on 6 February 1945. No other children arose from this relationship and the couple separated after a short time. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child, but seldom saw them. Bob Marley never really came to know his father, who died when he was 10.
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