After Edward Booker's death in 1976, Cedella moved to Miami, Florida, where she was present at the deathbed of her famous son who died from cancer in 1981. shotgun and opening fire on responding police Richard Booker survives her. Anthony was killed in a shootout with Miami police after walking through a shopping mall with a 12 ga. While living in Trenchtown, Booker gave birth to a daughter, Pearl, with Taddeus Livingston, the father of Bunny Livingston – aka Bunny Wailer – who formed the original Wailers trio with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in 1963.Ĭedella then married Edward Booker, an American civil servant, and resided first in Delaware, where she gave birth to two more sons, Richard and Anthony, with Booker. This was the only place Booker could afford to live at the time, being a young woman moving from the country to the big city on her own. Cedella and Bob then moved to Trenchtown, a slum neighborhood in Kingston. Bob was ten years old when Norval died of a heart attack in 1955 at age 70. His family applied constant pressure however, and although he provided financial support for them, the Captain seldom saw his wife and son. Norval Marley was a Marine officer and captain as well as the plantation overseer.
At 18, Cedella Malcolm married Norval Sinclair Marley, a White Jamaican of mixed English and Syrian Jewish ancestry, when she became pregnant with his son, Robert Nesta (which second given name "Nesta" means prophetically "wise messenger"). Booker was born Sidilla Editha Malcolm in Rhoden Hall, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, to Albertha Whilby and Omeriah Malcolm, a farmer, a "bush doctor", and one of the most respected residents of Nine Mile (son of Robert "Uncle Day" Malcolm, who descended from the Cromanty slaves shipped to Jamaica from the African Gold Coast in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries).