Brief Life History of Patrick
When Patrick Hepburn 1st Earl of Bothwell was born on 10 July 1451, in Hailes Castle, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, his father, Sir Adam Hepburn, was 16 and his mother, Helen Home, was 15. He married Lady Janet Douglas on 1 February 1481. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 18 October 1508, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 57.
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- The Scots Peerage Volume 2
- Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22
- Genealogy and history of the Hepburn family of the Susquehanna Valley
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Name Meaning
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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