Ancestry of Bob Marley

compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner


The following material on the immediate ancestry of Bob Marley should not be considered either exhaustive or authoritative, but rather as a first draft.

For the most part, this report is the work of Christopher Challender Child, of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. The primary contribution of the undersigned was to HTML-ize Mr. Child's report.

Much of the material below was taken from Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, by Timothy White. The paternal ancestry is taken from http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=cmarley&id=I011.





William Addams Reitwiesner

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Ancestry of Bob Marley
1 Robert Nesta ("Bob") Marley, b. Rhoden Hall, nine miles from Kingston (thus also known as Nine Miles), St. Ann, Jamaica 6 Feb. 1945, d. Miami, Florida, 11 May 1981
m. Jamaica 10 Feb. 1966, Alpharita ("Rita") Constantia Anderson, b. 25 Jul. 1946 Cuba, daughter of Leroy Anderson and Cynthia Jarrett.
PARENTS
2 Norval Sinclair Marley, b. Clarendon, Jamaica, ... [ca. 1894 or ca. 1881], d. ... 1955
m. ... 9 Jun. 1944
3 Cedella Malcolm, b. ... , Jamaica, 23 Jul. 1926, d. Miami, Fla., 8 April 2008 [Washington Post 2008 April 10, B7] m2. Delaware Oct. 1963 Edward Booker
GRANDPARENTS
4 Albert Thomas Marley, b. South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, England, 29 Oct. 1851, d. Colon, Panama, 1 Feb. 1885
m.
5 Ellen Bloomfield, b. ... 1854, d. St. Andrew, Jamaica, 25 Oct. 1952
6 Omeriah Malcolm, b. .... [ca. 1880] d. ... 12 Sep. 1964
m.
7 Alberta Willoughby, b. ... , d. ... 1935
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
8 Frederick Marley, b. Rye, Sussex, England 20 Feb. 1820, d. ...
m.
9 Hannah Jane Tiltman, b. Rye, Sussex, England 19 May 1824, d. ...
10 Richard Bloomfield, b. ... , d. ...
m.
11 ... , b. ... , d. ...
12 Robert Malcolm, b. ... , d. ...
m.
13 Katherine ... , b. ... , d. ... 1956
14 David Willoughby, b. ... , d. ...
m.
15 Anna Downs, b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
16 Thomas Marley, b. ... [ca. 1795], d. ...
m.
17 Jane ... , b. ... , d. ...
18 Richard Tiltman, "seaman", b. ... [bapt. Rye, Sussex, 7 March 1778 (IGI)], d. ...
m.
19 Mary Moore, b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
36 William Tiltman, b. ... [bap. Rye, Sussex, England, 12 Mar. 1752], d. ...
m. Rye, Sussex, England, 23 Mar. 1776
37 Anne Lawrence, b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
72 Richard Tiltman, b. Rye, Sussex, England, ... [ca. Oct. 1717, bap. Seaford, Sussex, England, 20 Oct. 1717], d. Rye, Sussex, England, ... [ca. Dec. 1767, bur. Rye, Sussex, England, 5 Dec. 1767] [A HREF="http://jamesevans.members.easyspace.com/samplegen/pafg01.htm"> http://jamesevans.members.easyspace.com/samplegen/pafg01.htm]
m. Rye, Sussex, England, 5 May 1746
73 Mary Chandler, b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
144 William Tiltman, b. ... , d. ...
m.
145 Mary ... , b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
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NOTES






2 -- Biographers have long said Bob Marley's father was fifty when he married his eighteen year old mother. Christopher Marley's database indicates Norval was born around 1881 and that Norval's father died in 1885. This would make Norval Marley around sixty-three when he married Cedella Malcolm. If Norval Marley was fifty, his father's death date would have to have been later.











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