Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of a road trip drive with, Scottish music, on ancestry visit to the church and graveyard in Muckhart, Clackmannanshire. This is the graveyard of two settlements, the hamlets Yetts o’ Muckhart and Pool of Muckart. Buried here is the body Isabella Christie of Cowden, called Ella. She was born in 1861 and died in 1949, she was buried with family in Muckhart. She never married, and travelled widely to many places in the world: Uzbekistan, Russia, America, India, Tibet, Borneo and the Far East. She met the Dalai Lama, banqueted with the Maharaja and created an impressive Japanese garden a short distance away from the graveyard, inspired by what she had seen during her extensive travelling and her trip to Japan in 1907. The parish boundary is some what unusual and extends to the outer edge of Dollar, some three miles west and follows the River Devon. The distance from Perth, Perthshire to Muckhart is 23.8 miles by road. A church in Muckhart is mentioned as early as 1470, when its " rector " is listed as John Andrew under the Diocese of St Andrews Cathedral in Fife. The final pre Reformation priest seems to have survived without replacement, John Sempill being in place from 1555 to 1570, being then replaced by Harry Colville, the first person termed " minister. " The current parish church also dates from the 18th century but is a plain Scots box chapel in style.
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