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Captain Kenneth Howard was the eldest son of James Kenneth Howard and was an army officer. He married Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury in 1881 and on their marriage he assumed the second surname and the arms of Bury by royal license. They had two children, Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and Marjorie Howard-Bury. He died in 1885, while his children were very young. Lady Emily who had inherited the Charleville estate in 1875, lived until 1931.

The 3rd earl of Charleville inherited the bad debts of previous generations. Prior to his succession, he was a lieutenant of 43rd foot and married Arabella Case in 1850. They had five children, but on returning to Charleville in 1851, numerous tragedies befell the family. Arabella died in 1857 from scarletina at the age of 35 years, and two years later, in 1859, the earl died at the age of 37. Their five young children, all minors and now wards of Chancery, were left in the care of their uncle, the Hon Alfred Bury and his wife, at Charleville Castle. In 1861, in a tragic accident, their seven year old daughter Lady Harriet Bury, fell to her death while attempting to slide down the banisters in the castle.

Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury was born in London to Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury and his wife Lady Emily Alfreda Julia Bury, youngest daughter of Charles William Bury, 3rd earl of Charleville. He was educated privately at Charleville Castle, at Eton College and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He joined the 60th Rifles in 1904 and was posted to India, where he began his life-long love of exploration and mountaineering. He climbed the Tien Shen mountains in Tibet in 1912 and kept a travel diary. A book 'The Mountains of Heaven' from this diary was published in 1990.

In 1912 he inherited Belvedere House, Mullingar, County Westmeath, from his cousin Charles Brinsley Marlay. From this time, Charleville Castle ceased to be used by the family.

He resumed active service during the First World War, commanding the 7th and 9th battalions of the King's Royal Rifles. He served at Arras, the Somme, Passchendale and Ypres where he was captured and remained a prisoner of war at Furstenburg until 1919. Following the war, he returned to mountaineering and led the first expedition to Everest which surveyed the route to the summit for future climbers.

Following the successful expedition to Everest, Howard-Bury was a well-known figure and entered politics. He was MP for Bilston (South Wolverhampton) in 1922 and MP for CHelmsford between 1926 and 1931, when he retired after inheriting Charleville Estate on the death of his mother. During the Second World War, he was appointed an assistant commissioner for the British Red Cross. During this time he met Rex Beaumont, an actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at that time in the RAF during the war. They became close friends and together renovated Belvedere House where they lived for the rest of their lives. In 1948, Howard-Bury auctioned most of the contents of Charleville Castle including furniture and paintings.

Howard-Bury died in 1963. He bequeathed Charleville etsate to his cousin, Major William Bacon Hutton Bury, the grandson of the 4th earl of Charleville's elder sister, Lady Katherine Beaujolois Bury and hr husband Edmund Bacon Hutton. He bequeathed Belvedere to Rex Beaumont.

Lady Katherine Arabella Beaujolois Bury was the eldest daughter of Charles William George, 3rd earl of Charleville, and his wife Arabella. She married Col. Edmund Bacon Hutton of the Royal Dragoons in 1873.

Arabella Case was the youngest daughter of Henry Case of Staffordshire. She married Viscount Tullamore in 1850 just prior to his succeeding to the earldom of Charleville in 1851. She lived in Charleville almost continuously from that time with their five children, but died from a bout of scarletina in 1857 at the age of 35.

Alfred Bury was the youngest son of Charles William, 2nd earl of Charleville and his wife Harriet Charlotte Beaujolois Campbell. His brother the 3rd earl and wife both died in their mid-thirties leaving five young children as wards of court. Alfred was named as their guardian and brought them up in Charleville Castle. He married Emily Frances Wood but they had no children. When his nephew and former ward, the 4th earl, died at the young age of 22 in New York in 1874, the earldom reverted to Alfred. He was only to be Earl of Charleville for one year as he died in Brighton in 1875. He had no male heirs and the title became extinct.

Emily Frances Wood married the Honorable Alfred Bury in 1854. She became countess of Charleville in 1874 when the earldom reverted to Alfred, but he died shortly after in 1875, and the estates passed to his sister Lady Emily Howard-Bury. As Emily Frances and Albert had no children, the peerage became extinct on his death.

Thomas Hilary Burbage was baptised on 4 March 1879 in Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary. He was the son of James Burbage and Isabella Dunne. His father was an ex-RIC Head Constable from County Longford but when he retired from the R.I.C. and settled in Portarlington and is recorded as a grocer in Main Street in 1894 and 1901. They remained there until their deaths inthe early 1920s/1930s respectively and are buried in the New Cemetery in Portarlington. Thomas received his early education in the Portarlington Christian Brothers
School and was educated in Carlow from 1896 to 1897, in Maynooth from 1897 to 1904 and was ordained in St. Patrick’s College, Carlow in 1904 for the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin. Father Burbage was devoted to duty, both religious and political. He was reported to be a noted speaker and writer, a charismatic and staunch republican, a prominent member of Sinn Féin and played an active role in politics. He did not confine his energy to the build up of the party but also expressed a genuine desire for the revival of the Irish language and was a noted Gaelic Leaguer in the county.

Father Burbage was a curate firstly in Carlow in his early life, and later lived in Geashill, County Ofaly, from September 1916 to June 1925. During one such speech at Philipstown (now Daingean), near Geashill, in August 1917, he made a strong attack on British cabinet ministers, comparing them to ‘Satan in furthering their own interests’ before going on the advise his listeners to ‘follow the rebels of Easter week even to death if you are true Irishmen’. Later in October, part of his speech at a meeting in Killoughy was also deleted from the also deleted from the press reports while the police again took note of his comments concerning their alleged strong arm tactics used on the occasion of the arrests of the county’s leading Sinn Féin activist, T.M. Russell, during March 1918, when Burbage announced that ‘it was clear to all the world that all tyranny did not cease when the Czar of Russia was driven from his throne’. These and similar sentiments by Fr Burbage earned him the respect of the country’s leading republicans and in November 1917, along with Fr Bergin, P.P., Philipstown, both were elected Vice President of the north King’s county Sinn Féin Executive.

While he was stationed in Geashill, Burbage became deeply associated with the republican movement in Offaly. During this period he claimed he found a British officer attempting to ‘plant a revolver in a bag upstairs in his house’. It was also alleged he was freed on by uniformed men from a military motor lorry, while he was returning from Tullamore to Geashill. At Curragh Hill, near the village of Geashill, he met three motor lorries containing armed soldiers. When the last one had passed him, at a range of thirty yards, Fr Burbage stated that a number of shots were freed at him. ‘I was much startled’ he told a reporter, ‘and I thought I was hit when I heard the bang’. He claimed that his residence was raided on several occasions and after one search in 1920, he was arrested. He was first taken to the Curragh and from there to Arbour Hill. In January 1920 Burbage was sent to Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Co. Down. Ill-treatment at the camp led to struggles and a tribunal headed by Fr Burbage later investigated the atrocities. It was reported that the presence of the priest at the camp proved to be a big consolation to the prisoners and he often administered Holy Communion to as many as 600 prisoners in a morning .On Easter Sunday 1922, ‘to mark the occasion of his release from Ballykinlar Internment Camp’, he was presented with an address from the bishop and priests of the diocese, paying tribute to the manner in which his ‘character and judgement contributed to make these (Republican) courts represented and obeyed’ and celebrating his work for the Irish language, the revival of the Irish industries and a rebirth of a spirit of self-reliance in the people. The people of his parish also presented him with ‘a beautiful two-seater Morris Cowley motorcar as a token of their esteem.

Fr. Burbage was appointed parish priest of Tinryland, near county Carlow in 1936. Five years later he was appointed to Mountmellick, and was Diocesan Consulter in Kildare and Leighlin, and was parish priest of Mountmellick for twenty-six years. He continued his work amongst the people over his years in Mountmellick and raised over one hundred thousand pounds to extend St. Joseph’s Church. Father Burbage also helped raised monies to build the new cinema, which opened in April 1951.When on 1 July 1954, he celebrated his golden jubilee Mass, the then President, Sean T. O’Ceallaigh, attended and the Taoiseach, Mr de Valera, was represented and sent a message of congratulations. Father Burbage died on 8 January 1966 and is buried in the Church grounds in Mountmellick. It was reported that President de Valera was amongst the huge attendance at the funeral.

Born in [Tipperary], William Perkinson married Mary Monaghan of Croghan,Lower Ormond, Tipperary, near Birr, County Offaly, on or before 1825. They settled in Croghan and had four children, Eliza (b. 1825), William Jr (b.1831), Mary Maria (b. 1836) and Matilda (b. 1838).