When Jean-nic-Patrick Hepburn of Bothwell was born in 1535, her father, Patrick Hepburn 3rd Earl of Bothwell, was 23 and her mother, Lady Agnes Sinclair of Morham, was 19. She married John Stewart 1st Lord Darnley Commendator of Coldingham on 4 January 1562, in Crichton, Midlothian, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 27 July 1599, in Caithness, Scotland, at the age of 64.
English (Durham) and Scottish: habitational name from Hepburn in Chillingham (Northumberland), Hebron (Northumberland), or Hebburn in Jarrow (Durham). The placenames probably all derive from Old English hēah ‘high’ + byrgen ‘burial place, tumulus’. Compare Hebron .
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