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Sankey
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Under the Acts of Settlement Hierom Sankey was granted over 12,700 acres in county Kerry and some lands in counties Kilkenny and Tipperary for the use of the children of Henry Ireton. Richard Sankey, a Colonel in the Williamite army, married Mary Taylor of Ballynort, county Limerick, and died in 1693. Their son Jacob Sankey of St Johnstown, county Tipperary, was the father of Matthew Sankey of Coolmore, county Tipperary. At the time of Griffith's Valuation the Sankey estate was located in the parishes of Modeshil and Rathcool, barony of Middlethird, county Tipperary. In the 1870s Captain Jacob Hierom Sankey of Coolmore owned 769 acres in county Tipperary and 392 acres in county Waterford. The property in the latter county consisted of townlands in the parish of Reisk, barony of Middlethird.
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Scott (Willsboro)
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In the mid-19th century Richard Scott held an estate in the parish of Lurgan, county Cavan, which came into his possession through his marriage in 1823 to Eleanor, the eldest daughter of Colonel Sankey of Fort Frederick. Richard was the fourth son of William Scott of Willsboro’, county Londonderry. The representatives of Thomas Scott of Willsboro' were recorded as the owners of over 4000 acres in County Donegal in the 1870s. The estate of the Lords O'Neill of Shane's Castle, County Antrim, also appear to have had an interest in this property.
By 1876, the Fort Frederick estate in Cavan was back in the possession of the Sankey family when Eleanor’s cousin, A.W.G. Sankey of Fort Frederick, is recorded as the owner of 1,324 acres.
Burke and others suggest that the Willsboro' branch of the Scott family derive from Gideon Scott, a clergyman serving with King William's forces in Ireland at the end of the seventeenth century, who purchased the Wilsboro' estate near Eglinton, County Derry.
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