Capt. Norval Sinclair Marley

Brief Life History of Norval Sinclair

When Capt. Norval Sinclair Marley was born in 1882, in Clarendon, Jamaica, his father, Albert Thomas Marley, was 31 and his mother, Ellen Ann Bloomfield, was 23. He married Cedella Editha Malcolm on 9 June 1944, in Saint Ann, Jamaica. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Jamaica in 1944. He died on 23 May 1957, in Half Way Tree, Saint Andrew, Jamaica, at the age of 75, and was buried in Saint Ann, Jamaica.

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Family Time Line

Capt. Norval Sinclair Marley
1882–1957
Cedella Editha Malcolm
1926–2008
Marriage: 9 June 1944
Robert “Bob” Nesta Marley
1945–1981

Sources (15)

  • Norval Sinclair Marley, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Norval Sinclair Marley, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Marley, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"

World Events (4)

1884

New constitution marks the initial revival of local autonomy.

1907

City of Kingston destroyed by earthquake.

1923

In 1923, Kingston and St. Andrew were amalgamated to create the Corporate Area of Kingston and St. Andrew. The parish council was then named the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC). Currently, the Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew is Angela Brown Burke.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Devon, Kent, and Yorkshire. According to Ekwall, the first element of these placenames is respectively Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’, myrig ‘pleasant’, and mearth ‘(pine) marten’. The second element in each case is Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This surname was taken to Ireland by a Northumbrian family who settled there in the 17th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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