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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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Sankey (Fort Frederick)
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Edward Sankey, alderman of Dublin and Lord Mayor of the city in 1766 and his wife Mary Medlicott had three sons. In 1776, his second son, Henry Gore Sankey of Fort Frederick, county Cavan, married Barbara, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Sneyd of Bailieborough. According to Burkes they had two sons and three daughters. Both sons died without heirs and in 1823 their eldest daughter Eleanor married Richard Scott of the Willsboro’ family. The Scotts were living at Fort Frederick at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. John, the third son of Edward Sankey, also married a daughter of the Reverend Sneyd and their eldest son was Major Samuel Sankey, who married Mary Anderson of Aughnacloy in 1841. In 1876, their eldest son, Alexander William Jackson Sankey, owned the Fort Frederick estate, comprised of 1,324 acres. He died unmarried in 1903. In 1906, their second son Henry held over 300 acres of untenanted land in the parish of Killinkere.
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