Hepburn Family Tree Short Form

My mother Audrey Marie Hepburn (nee Urbshott) was a born archivist. She liked to document day to day events, family trees and community history. She collected a voluminous amount of information about her own family history and that of her husband, William Allan Hepburn. She enjoyed visiting with relatives, learning about all the family connections and adding to her family information stock-pile by connecting with people far and wide. Her connections were ever-expanding linking the people and stories that make "family" in the broadest, historical sense of the word.

 

In the Wiarton, Ontario Canada area, "Hepburn" is common surname. Many people came to my mother when exploring their own family trees. Below is a quick sketch provided as an answer to a request for information about the Hepburn Family tree. It starts with the patriarchs of the family: Peter, Andrew and Simpson Hepburn, three brothers who came to Canada from Scotland. This is in my mother's handwriting written in 1976. It serves as a great reference to get the right "branch" of the family tree when meeting another Hepburn. Hope you enjoy this cornerstone, this geneological treasure to my own reluctant archiving endeavours!