The following extracts were taken from a letter sent to one of my Ancestors, John Walker of Pennsylvania, from Mr William Proudfit, in 1913. |
Dear John:
Several years ago I promised to write my recollections of the Sutherland-Hepburn
family as I recall them from my mother's talks regarding the olden times
in Scotland: and I send them to you in the same mail with this. They have
been a long time on the way but my work led me into an investigation of
the Hepburn family of Scotland and also of the Sutherland family. This required
a great deal of time, as the record existed only in fragmentary form, and
had to be culled from a great veriety of sources.
The Bothwell Hepburns
The Genealogy of the Bothwell Hepburns or Earls of Bothwell is given in Burke's "Dormant Peeragees of Great Britain" as follows:Patrick Hepburn, Lord Holes, was created Earl of Bothwell on account of services at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1485. He married Janet Douglas and there family were:Adam Hepburn, second Earl. II John Hepburn, Bishop of Brechin. III Patrick Hepburn, Bishop of Moray. IV Janet Hepburn. V Mary Hepburn. VI Margaret Hepburn.
Adam, 2nd Earl of Bothwell and High Admiral of Scotland, married Agnes Stewart, and there family were: Patrick, 3rd Earl of Bothwell. Patrick married Margaret Home and there family were:James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell. II Jean Hepburn, who married the prior of Coldingham.
James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell married first Jean Gordon, whom he divorced, and second Mary Stewart, Queen of Scotland, but left no descendants.
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