Cedella booker and all of her children

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    Cedella Booker

    Sidilla Editha "Cedella" Booker (previously Marley, néeMalcolm; July 23, 1926 – April 8, 2008) was a Jamaican singer and writer.

    She was the mother of reggae legend Bob Marley.

    Cedella booker and all of her children

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  • Biography

    Booker was born Sidilla Editha Malcolm in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, the daughter of Albertha Whilby and Omeriah Malcolm, a farmer, "bush doctor", and one of the most respected residents of Nine Mile.

    Her paternal grandfather was Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who descended from the Coromantee (or Akan) slaves shipped to Jamaica from the Gold Coast, today known as Ghana, in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.[2] At 18, she married 59-year-old Norval Sinclair Marley, a white Jamaican of English descent.

    She became pregnant with their son, Robert Nesta (whose middle name "Nesta" means "wise messenger"). After Norval's death in 1955,[3] Booker and her son moved to Trenchtown, a slum neighborhood in Kingston.

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