Talk:Norval Marley

message: Also trying real hard to be jewish. His jewishness is not documented correctly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.101.118.185 (talk) 14:13, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: English or Welsh?

message: "^ Year of birth presumed on the basis of the information that he was 190 years old when he died in 1955." huh?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.68.243.73 (talk) 23:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  190 years old!? 

message: Norval's father (Bob's grandfather) died in 1885. Therefore Norval must have been born before 1885 rather then after. Look it up. Polozooza (talk) 08:39, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1885 

message: Most of the references to Norval Marley are hearsay and I would suggest are not reliable - indeed I would suggest that he doesn't warrant a separate article under Wikipedia:Notability criteria. Starting with his age none of the sources agree with his age when he died or when Bob was born but checking his service record on Ancestry and Polozooza comment above suggests that he was born c1885 - it would be useful if someone could find a birth or baptism certificate (ages on death are very unreliable). The article was contradictory saying that he joined the army and as a captain in the Royal Marines! His service record confirms that he did join the army in Liverpool in August 1916 but as a private in the Labour Corps. There is no evidence from the Army of Navy Lists (which list all officers in the Army, Navy and Royal Marines) that he had been a commissioned officer. May be he had been a 'captain' but it wasn't in the British army or Royal Marines. I started putting some archival / original research notes on Norval Marley on The National Archives wiki. --GGrannum 19:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. I have also seen this mistake been made in the Bob Marley-article. It has to be fixed everywhere or else it is of no use. I am glad to see I am not the only one who noticed these contradictions. Polozooza (talk) 10:08, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hearsay 

message: I read on the page History of the Jews in Jamaica that Norval's son, Bob Marley, had a Jewish grandmother. I presume it would be from his paternal side, thus Norval Marley's mother would be Jewish, and Bob Marley a quarter Jewish. If this is legitimate, could this be added to this page as well as Bob Marley's? TomUSA 00:02, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The Broomfield family is prominent enough in Jamaica, and there is no genealogical evidence that they had Syrian, or Jewish, ancestry. Nothing in Bob Marley's genealogy indicates Syrian or Jewish ancestry, either. All Hallow's Wraith (talk) 12:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish ancestry 

message: The article currently includes "Norval later claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines". However the newspaper article cited (The Observer, Sunday 8 April 2012) does not mention the Royal Marines. It does say "Norval Marley, a man who claimed to have been a captain in the colonial Caribbean army, but wasn't." (Possibly the Caribbean Regiment is to be understood by "the colonial Caribbean army") Nedrutland (talk) 11:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captain in the Royal Marines?