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- ↑ Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell (1901). A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames: with special American instances. London. p. 180.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ "Christie Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2008-08-12.
- ↑ "Christie Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 25 January 2014
- ↑ Publications: Wrote the introduction to "Gateway to Tibet : the Kansu-Tibetan border" / by Robert B. Ekvall; introduction [by] William Christie. Retired to Carlisle, PA.
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