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Cosby (Becks Court)
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In the mid-19th century William Cosby held 3 townlands in the parish of Denn, county Cavan and his sister Frances held one. In 1876, William Cosby of Annahilt, county Down owned 504 acres in the county. William Cosby and other family members are buried in Annahilt graveyard where a gravestone records that William of H.M. 63rd Regiment died in 1864, his sister Frances in 1885 and William’s son Major William Cosby in 1890. William and Frances were the children of the Reverend Arnold Cosby (died 1817) of Becks Court, Bailieborough, county Cavan, rector of Killinkere and his wife Frances Beatty. The Reverend Arnold was the eldest son of Thomas Cosby of Becks Court, High Sheriff of county Cavan in 1765 and his wife Catherine, daughter of Captain William Stopford, brother of James 1st Earl of Courtown (Crossle Record).
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