1. Ella Christie had an elder brother, John Coldwells who died in childhood in his 12th year in 1872, and a younger sister, Alice Margaret.
22 Facts About Ella Christie
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In 1865 Ella Christie's father purchased the Castleton estate in the Ochils, renaming it Cowden Castle, and the family moved there.
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Ella Christie visited Egypt, Palestine and Syria and started to write about her trips.
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Ella Christie lived on at Cowden Castle and managed the estate.
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Ella Christie's adventures saw her camping in the snow at Chorbat Pass, sailing in a cargo ship full of pigs, travelling by pack horse and cart in the Kashmir wilderness and trekking by foot for 60 miles in the Desoi mountains.
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Ella Christie's journey took her to Constantinople across the Black Sea, through Georgia to the Caspian Sea and onward to Ashkabad and Merv.
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Ella Christie travelled by train and boat along the Silk Road, visiting Bukhara, Samarkand, Kokand, and finally Andhizan.
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Ella Christie undertook a further trip to the Russian Empire in 1912.
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Ella Christie was the first British woman to visit Khiva.
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Ella Christie kept an account of her travels in her diaries and she was in regular correspondence with her sister.
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Ella Christie later wrote about her trips to the Russian Empire in the book Through Khiva to golden Samarkand.
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In 1916, Ella Christie travelled to France to become the manager of the L'Oeuvre de la Goutte de Cafe at Bar-sur-Aube.
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The cafe that Ella Christie managed was staffed by five Scottish women and served the soldiers fighting at the Battle of Verdun.
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From 1918 to 1919 Ella Christie oversaw another 'LOuevre de la Goutte de Cafe at Mulhouse.
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Ella Christie employed Taki Handi, from the Royal School of Garden Design in Nagoya, to help plan and design the garden.
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Ella Christie was advised on the form, maintenance and development of the garden by Professor Jijo Soya Suzuki, Master of the Soami School of Imperial Design.
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Ella Christie was a fellow Royal Geographical Society of Scotland, she was a Member of Council and in November 1934 she became a vice-president of the Society.
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Ella Christie was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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On 10 February 1913 Ella Christie was in the first cohort of women to be elected Fellows.
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Ella Christie died of leukemia on the 29 January 1949 at Strathearn Road, Edinburgh.
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Ella Christie is buried in the Christie family plot at Muckhart churchyard, east of Cowden.
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Ella Christie authored and co-authored several books about her travels, two of which she wrote with her sister, Alice.