where is bob marley from where was he born?
Nine Mile, Jamaica
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 According to a DNA analysis , he is a descendant through African ancestral lines of the Igbo people of Nigeria . 

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 According to Marley 's biographers , he affiliated with the Twelve Tribes Mansion , one of the Mansions of Rastafari . He was in the denomination known as " Tribe of Joseph " , because he was born in February ( each of the twelve sects being composed of members born in a different month ) . He signified this in his album liner notes , quoting the portion from Genesis that includes Jacob 's blessing to his son Joseph . 

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 Robert Nesta Marley was born on the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile , Saint Ann Parish , Jamaica , to Norval Sinclair Marley ( 1885 – 1955 ) and Cedella Booker ( 1926 – 2008 ) . Norval Marley was a white Jamaican originally from Sussex , England , whose family claimed Syrian Jewish origins . Norval claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines ; at the time of his marriage to Cedella Booker , an Afro @-@ Jamaican then 18 years old , he was employed as a plantation overseer . Though Bob Marley was named Nesta Robert Marley , a Jamaican passport official would later reverse his first and middle names . Norval provided financial support for his wife and child but seldom saw them as he was often away . Bob Marley attended Stepney Primary and Junior High School which serves the catchment area of Saint Ann . In 1955 , when Bob Marley was 10 years old , his father died of a heart attack at the age of 70 . 

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 Bob Marley married Alpharita Constantia " Rita " Anderson in Kingston , Jamaica , on 10 February 1966 . Marley had a number of children : three with his wife Rita , two adopted from Rita 's previous relationships , and several others with different women . The Bob Marley official website acknowledges eleven children . 

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 In 1966 , Marley married Rita Anderson , and moved near his mother 's residence in Wilmington , Delaware in the United States for a short time , during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant , under the alias Donald Marley . 
