Contents include: The first immigrant women to settle at Strathdownie (Glenormiston ) in 1840 p9. Elizabeth Webster (nee Youl) 1819-1897 p10. Jane Mackinnon (nee Montgomery) 1809-1849 p21. Elizabeth Thomson (nee Young) 1804-1859 p25. Anne Eddington (nee Blair) 1808-1849 p27. Elizabeth Blair (nee McLauchlan) 1774-1866 p31. Lillias McKellar (nee Morrison) 1817-1900 p32. Dorothy / Dorothea Tapp (nee Latham) 1822-1888 p35. Sarah Louisa Burke (nee Montgomery) ca 1815-1891 p37. Jane Eliza Brooks (nee Condell) ca 1822-1904 p46. Margaret Jessie Hamilton (nee Clow) 1824-1893 p52. Jane Farie (nee Cox) 1819-1863 p58. Margaret Fleming (nee Kirkwood) ca 1813-1900 p64. The McLaurin sisters: Agnes Oliphant ca 1822-1916; Joan Anderson 1831-1855; Catherine Shaw, ca 1827-1888 p66. Susan Carmichael (nee Nash) ca 1830-1873 p76. Maria Jane Dowling (nee Ware) 1822-1908 p79. The Rose sisters: Mary Ann Absalom 1834-1898; Charlottle Edwards 1843-1915; Sarah Ann Geddes 1845-1909 p84. Flora Rachel Wallace-Dunlop (nee Dunlop) 1807-1891 p89. Anne Ware later Aitkin (nee McRobie) 1833-1867 p95. Jane Hood formerly Sceales (nee Paton) 1821-1910 p100. Jemima Vans Robertson (nee Dunlop) 1800-1884 p105. Elizabeth McDonald (nee Sime) 1824-1885 p119. Grace Pagan (nee Couch) 1803-1880 p124. Mary Blewitt (nee Couch) 1794-1879 p128. The Blewitt sisters: Mary West 1823-1897; Charlotte Brumley 1833-1906; Rebecca Flower 1832-1909 p130. Mary Ann Polley (nee Terrington) 1827-1874 p131. Caroline White (nee Uebergang) 1833-1932 p135. Mary Purcell (nee Brennan) ca 1797-1860 p137. Anne Cameron (nee Cameron) ca 1811-1890 p139. Grace Greenshields Black (nee Leadbetter) 1833-1907 P142. Margaret Armstrong (nee Lorraine) 1812-1891 p144. Jane Rundle (nee Stark) 1829-1917 p151. Annabella Helen Sloane (nee Gibson) 1836-1920 and Lavinia Gibson (nee Featherstone) died 1888 p153. Fanny Mary Anne Puckle (nee Selwyn and formerly de la Condamine) 1827-1896 p158. Other pioneer women to settle in the district prior to 1860 p166-171. Who settled where and when? p172-174.