Robert Nesta Marley
BORN: February 6, 1945, St. Ann, Jamaica
DIED: May 11, 1981, Miami, FL
In the year 1944, Captain Norval Marley married a
young Jamaican girl named Cedalla Booker. On
February 6, 1945 at two thirty in the morning their
son, Robert Nesta Marley was born in his
grandfather's house. Soon after Bob was born his
father left his mother. He did however give
financial support and occasionally returned to see
his son.
It was now the late fifties, jobs were scarce in
Jamaica, so Bob followed his mother from their home
in St. Ann to Trenchtown (West Kingston) to seek
employment in the big city.
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