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   I see you are looking into the family of John Igoe born 1853 Roscommon. His son John is my grandfather, he was born in chaters lane Dublin in 1884. He moved to Galway with his family, in the 1901 census he was 15 and, working with his father as a saddler at wood Quay. He married Mary Ryan in 1910 in the church of the three patrons Rathgar Dublin . He moved to Cavan you can find them at Abbey Street Cavan in the 1911 census. He set up his own business and remained there all his life where he died in 1966. During WW1 he went to Woolwich in se London where he conducted his trade, he had a limp and probably an undiagnosed click hip so never went to war.He and Mary had six children . My mother was his fourth child and she did on the 6th Dec. 2011. Patrick died in Palestine in 1918 and, is buried in a marked grave in the war cemetery on Telaviv road in Haifa Isreal . He was 28 . His Mother and sisters were living in Bowling Green Galway when she was notified of his death. One of Johns sons remained in Cavan and there are a lot of extended family there as a result. During the 1916 rising John was in Dublin and he and Mary and there two infant sons were at Fairy House races on the Easter Monday. Mary always spoke of the event to us as children. John was a master saddler and much respected. He was the last saddler in county Cavan area.