There are more than one hundred estates in Reading and Berkshire waiting to be claimed.
The Government is sitting on the estates because the deceased passed away without making a will or with no next of kin.
Several estates in Berkshire have been listed by the government for decades, and will revert to the crown permanently if they remain unidentified.
The list of surnames of unclaimed estates below include people who were born or died in the county, or had some other family link to the area.
According to Finders International – a specialist probate genealogist team – family members and heirs have just 12 years to claim an estate once it has been reported unclaimed to the Crown.
Danny Curran, star of BBC Heir Hunters and MD of Finders International told the Birmingham Mail: “These estates are waiting to be claimed from the government, who are sitting on the fortunes of over ten thousand people across the UK.”
Any individual can check the Central Probate Registry to see if any next of kin are on the unclaimed list.
The list has seen an sharp increase in numbers over the past few years due to government cuts which means there is no search for a will before an unclaimed estate is added to the list.
These are the surnames of unclaimed Berkshire estates:
Alders
Anderson
Barber
Bernard
Bloor
Bond
Bowden
Brooks
Brown
Butcher
Campbell
Carter
Cartland
Clark
Clarke
Collins
Dajlidzionek
Dalton
Danbury
Darby
Davis
Dodds
Donovan
Doyle
Duffell
Earney
Elkins
Ellis
Fajfurewycz
Fane
Farrell
Fitzgerald
Fowler
Goddard
Godwin
Goodwin
Gregorian
Gundry
Harrison
Haverley
Hawkins
Hayman
Hayter
Henderson
Hibbert
Higgins
Hindmarsh
Hirst
Hitchcock
Houlihan
Hrynko
Jaffe
Johns
Johnson
Jones
Keilly
Lawson
Gordon
Leonard
Levy
Lindsay
Malinowska
Mansfield
Mason
May
McCann
McElroy
Messenger
Miaskowski
Moore
Morris
O’Brien
O’Shea
Paul
Preston
Pringle
Pugh
Quinn
Readyhough
Rennie
Reynolds
Robertson
Robinson
Ross
Sanni
Short
Simmonds
Smith
Storey
Thaddeus
Tipler
Twomey
Vaisanen
Veselinovic
Vivian
Walker
Walsh
Ward
Warnock
Welch
Wells
Welsh
White
Wilkinson
Wilson
Winter
Wyka
Yates
Yusuf
This article has been first published in getreading.