[Ancestor] Hepburn

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Husband [Ancestor] Hepburn

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1 M John Hepburn ¹

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Bowan (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Hepburn

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The Hepburn family is of Scotch origin and of high antiquity, the house having been founded as early as the year 1200 A. D. It is not positively known how the name came into existence, but there is a tradition that it is derived from the names of two rivers, and it is probable that the family originally lived near two streams, from which the name Heborn is deduced. In course of time this was changed to Hebron, then Hepborn, and finally to Hepburn, in which latter form the name has been written in Scotland and America for the last two hundred years. In early times many members of the family occupied prominent positions in civil and military life; were distinguished ecclesiastics, poets, divines, judges and advocates, and were identified with the political and religious dissensions which so disturbed Scotland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
In the history of the Scottish nobility the Earls of Bothwell, who were members of the Hepburn family, occupy a conspicuous position. James Hepburn, the fourth Earl of Bothwell, became the last husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the latter part of the sixteenth cen-tury; he himself had been married twice previously. His numerous descendants are now scattered throughout the United Kingdom and America, and it is from this stock that the present family springs. Descendants of the family lived for many generations in and around Glasgow, and have at various times emigrated to the United States, founding new families there.

The Hepburn arms are as follows: Gules on a chevron, argent, two Scottish lions rending an English rose, quartered, azure with a golden ship; three chevronals on a field ermine or azure. The shield is supported by two lions guardant, and bearing on an escroll the motto: Keepe Tryste, that is "be faithful." ²

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 432.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 431.