That is interesting that it mentions guns. I had thought that they must have had them, but that is my first hard evidence. Can you tell me the date of the paper? I've had no luck finding the same thing.
There was one reference I heard when a guy told Knox to give everyone two weeks, to I guess sell their goods or something - they were mostly forced to leave that same night. I read that someone took an axe to their stairs.
The notice was served on the Nugents January 20 or 21, so if you add two weeks that would bring it around close to February 1st.
Could be Thomas was trying to downsize because he didn't have a good place lined up yet. I imagine that much of the stuff wasn't even his but John's and maybe his uncle Thomas Clarke's.
I know that John was living there at least in late December of 1864, maybe later. While, he was living in Enfield in November 1866, when he married, I'm not sure if he was crammed into some small place or not. When he married, he moved into the house of his wife, whose father had died some years before. They lived in Gurteen, Kildare.
Let me add that I don't know what happened to Clarke, other than he won the case. I think in March 1865. I'm not sure where he went on to live. Maybe, that would be a way to link them.
I didn't realize that the index to the wills went back that far. That's a good find because it says 1854. Does it also include 1852?
