1832 - 1841
Estate of Robert Wellbeloved Scott (1803-1856)
Robert Wellbeloved married Sarah Scott, taking her surname, on 17th February 1830. Sarah Scott was the only daughter and heiress to the family estates of John Scott (1764 - 3 Jan. 1832). Thus in 1832 Robert Wellbeloved Scott inherited much property in Great Barr and other areas.
He sat as Liberal M.P. for Walsall from 1841 to 1847, and became Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Staffordshire, with residences at the Red House, Great Barr; Cambridge Gate, Regents Park, London; and High Street, Stourbridge. In 1845 Robert Scott purchased the manor and estates of Ratlinghope, between the remote hills of the Long Mynd and the Stipperstones in Shropshire, with land at neighbouring Norbury and Wentnor. He and his wife had one son, John Charles Addyes Scott and three daughters. Robert Scott died in 1856 .
More information on Robert Scott can be found here...
Sneal's Green (or more properly Snail's Green) appears on early
maps and covers the area near to Red House Estate. A number of gravestones
in St Margarets Church mention Snails Green's residents..
Whites "History, Gazetteer & Directory of Staffordshire, 1834", stated that "Red House, near Sneal's Green, is a neat Gothic seat" and belonged to Robert Scott Esq, but occupied by John Vaughan Barber esq. who was a Banker. The Jackson's Oxford Journal recorded that John's wife Elizabeth had died in Great Barr in 1833 aged 58 and it also recorded that in 1836 his only daughter Eliza had also died aged 35. Thus John Barber was resident at least between 1833 and 1836.
The census of 1841 shows John Horn, Engineer, in resdience. He is shown in Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers as living at the Red House, as an Associate Member in 1841.
Thus it would seem that prior to the building of the current Red House there was an existing property which was rented out.
As Robert Wellbeloved Scott had many properties it seems that the Red House was not a main residence.
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