The 25 surnames attached to unclaimed estates with Northumberland links
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The government’s legal department regularly updates its list of available inheritances, and there are currently 25 on there with links to Northumberland.
An unclaimed estate makes the list when someone passes away without having an effective will in place, and no family comes forward to claim their estate.
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Hide AdThe deceased person’s property becomes ‘ownerless property’ and transfers to the possession of the Crown, but relations can come forward within 30 years if they believe they are entitled to a share.
No interest will be paid on the inherited estate unless it is claimed within 12 years.
Who is entitled to an unclaimed estate?
If someone dies without leaving a valid or effective will then relations, in the following order of priority, can make a claim:
1 – Husband, wife, or civil partner;
2 – Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and so on;
3 – Mother or father;
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Hide Ad4 – Brothers and sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews);
5 – Half brothers and sisters, or their children (nieces and nephews of the half blood or their children), with ‘half ’ meaning they share only one parent with the deceased;
6 – Grandparents
7 – Uncles and aunts, or their children (first cousins or their descendants);
8 – Half uncles and aunts, or their children (first cousins of the half blood or their children), with ‘half’ meaning they only share one grandparent with the deceased, not both.
Surnames associated with unclaimed estates in Northumberland and the associated date of death:
Barnes, 29/09/1998
Blackmore, 02/03/2011
Brigham, 09/09/2020
Carroll, 12/09/2007
Chan, 12/05/2018
Cowen, 04/10/2010
Gomez, 02/10/2012
Griffiths, 13/08/1998
Henderson, 26/10/2010
Hogan, 18/04/2022
McGilvey, 12/11/1999
Moor, 11/05/1993
Murphy, 15/05/1997
O’Brien, 05/04/1993
Petruczek, 12/02/2019
Pollard, 21/10/2009
Roy, 16/03/2003
Ryan, 10/01/1994
Simpson, 07/07/2003
Sisterson, 08/09/2018
Stewart, 08/10/2005
Thompson, 19/01/2018
Thompson, 16/10/2004
Thornton, 04/03/1999
Wade, 04/12/2011
How to claim an unclaimed estate
Information on how to make a claim can be found on the government website.