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Elias William Kerr, son of Doctor William Pattison Kerr (1824-1894) and Ann Banks (1820-1887), was born in Grange Gorman, Dorset, around the year 1850. He married Fanny Brady (1851-1886) of Falcarragh, County Donegal, on 3 February 1875. They had seven children: Ethel Kerr (1875-1928); Arthur F G Kerr (1877-1942); William Ashe Kerr (1879-1936); Walter Joule Kerr (1881-1956); Harry R Kerr (1883-1917); Mark Elias Schomberg Kerr (1883-1950); and Frederick Hugh Woodhams Kerr (1885-1958). Fanny Kerr died on 8 October 1886 in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England. Doctor Elias William Kerr died 8 June 1920 in Dorchester, Dorset, England. He was buried three days later, with his wife in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, England.

Ethel Kerr, daughter of Doctor Elias William Kerr (1850-1920) and Fanny Brady (1851-1886), was born 31 December 1875 in Kinlough, Leitrim, Ireland. She lived most of her life in Dorset, England. Ethel Kerr died in Bromley, Kent, England, on 31 October 1928.

Doctor James Kerr, son of Abraham John Kerr and Isabel Gilliland, was born 14 December 1848 in Roselick, Portstewart, Londonderry. He married Laura Jane Bell (1853-1949) on 26 July 1876 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. They had four children: Aileen Mary Kerr (1877-1928); Harry Hyland Kerr (1881-1963); Dio Keith Kerr (1883-1955); and Chichester Charles Kerr (1886-1980). In 1888 the family immigrated from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. Doctor James Kerr died 2 February 1911 in Antrim, Virginia. He is buried at Warrenton Cemetery in Warrenton, Virginia.

William Pattison Kerr, son of John Kerr, was born around the year 1824 in Donegal, Ireland. He married Anne Banks (1829-1887) and they had at least two children: Alice Ann Kerr (1844-1884) and Elias William Kerr (1850-1920). On 11 March 1887, his wife Anne Kerr died. Doctor William Pattison Kerr married a second time a year later, on 29 May 1888, to Miss Julia Kate Reed (1854-1940). They had two sons, William Pattison Reed Kerr (1889-1967) and Edwin Pattison Kerr (b. 1892). Doctor William Pattison Kerr died on 31 October 1893 in Sydling, Dorset, England.

Provincial: 2 March 1931-1941

The Convent of Mercy School in Kilbeggan was opened on 10th January 1880. In September 1997, the Convent of Mercy National School and Kilbeggan Boys National School amalgamated to form Scoil an Chlochair (The school of the convent).

Rural district councils were created through the Local Government (ireland) Act, 1898, and were eventually abolished after the partition of Ireland, by the Local Government Act of 1925.