Your post about the stories of an elderly descendant of three Madill brothers intrigues me. Mary Jane (Madill) Bothwell married one of my maternal Great-grandfathers, William Bothwell. He was 25 and she, 19. She gives her mother's name as Elizabeth Tait/Tate. From census records of 1851 and 1861 it seems the Bothwells and Madills lived on adjacent farms in Cavan Township. Mary Jane Madill's father and paternal grandfather were named John, and in census records, both state that they were born in Ireland. It is, I believe, MJ's grandfather who married Ann(?) Crosier. John Bothwell's father, William (b. 1811) also emigrated from Ireland, possibly sailing from Belfast, sometime before 1836 when he married Jane/Jean Finlay in Perth, Ontario. Your post is now 13 yrs past, but if you receive this note, I would so appreciate getting the info, data and stories you have about any of my ancestors.