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Robinson Crusoe's Bo'ness links

THE swashbuckling Scot believed to be the ''real'' Robinson Crusoe has descendants living in Bo'ness, it has emerged.

John McAvoy of Newtown Cottages, contacted us after a ''Peep at the Past'' appeal a fortnight ago for readers to help put a name to a young girl in a black and white image.

And his family tree shows that he's connected to one of Scotland's greatest literary heroes.

For more information, see this week's Journal and Gazette, on sale from Friday, March 5.

editorial@journalandgazette.co.uk


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