There are over 400 estates in Surrey that are just waiting to be claimed.
It’s a little-known secret that the details of thousands of unclaimed estates are available online – and you could make a claim to one of them if you’ve got the right surname.
The details are on a spreadsheet that can be accessed by anyone.
The Government is currently taking care of the estates because the deceased passed away without making a will or with no next of kin.
There are currently 434 unclaimed estates Surrey.
Several of the estates have been listed by the Government for decades, and will revert to the Crown permanently if they remain unidentified.
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.
Any individual can check the Central Probate Registry to see if any of their next of kin are on the unclaimed list.
If you think that you might be the rightful heir to one of the estates listed you can find out how to make a claim for that estate here.
The list has seen a sharp increase in numbers over the past few years because Government cuts mean there is no search for a will before an unclaimed estate is added to the list.
The names Surrey are:
Anderson
Arrow
Austin
Baxter
Bailey
Bell
Belton
Bernard
Blackmore
Blair
Blake
Boidin
Bowden
Boyce
Boyle
Branch
Brierly
Brent
Brown
Browning
Buck
Bruce
Bush
Burke
Campbell
Carr
Carter
Charnock
Clarke
Cooley
Christian
Chowdhur
Clinton
Churchill
Condon
Cox
Czernyszenko
Daniels
Davis
Delrome
Djorich
Dickson
Dixon
Dirick
Dolan
Duffy
Duggan
Durrani
Edwards
Elie
Elliott
Evans
Eydmann
Fennell
Field
Fisher
Fleming
Forde
Foster
Gebauer
Gibbons
Giles
Godfrey
Gormley
Gorzen
Green
Greenslade
Gubbins
Guppe
Hackett
Hammond
Harris
Harrison
Harvey
Haynes
Head
Higgins
Hilton
Hinds
Holmes
Hounsom
Hughes
Huynh
Ibrahim
Ilmari
Isaacs
Jeanes
John
Jones
Johnson
Johnstone
Keenan
Kelly
Kennedy
Kerr
Keywood
King
Klausner
Kopischke
Kursietis
Lapeikis
Lane
Langford
Lawrence
Lauberts
Laws
Lim
Llyod
Lovett
N’Wogo
Newman
Macdonald
Mann
Marshall
Martin
Meanley
McDonald
McCarte
McClean
McGill
McKay
McKenna
McIntyre
Melnyczyn
Melson
Meredith
Michel
Miller
Mitchell
Mohr
Molloy
Moran
Morris
Morrow
Mullis
McKenzie
Newman
Nerets
O’Connor
O’Sullivan
Opryszek
Ozolins
Patterson
Patrick
Parker
Pearce
Peck
Peterson
Phillips
Pope
Potter
Powell
Power
Pugsley
Pullen
Pratt
Raganatt
Rankin
Richbell
Riley
Rialli
Robertson
Roe
Rogers
Rogowski
Rowell
Russell
Ryan
Sanders
Sanderson
Sawyer
Shepherd
Sinclair
Singh
Simmonds
Simmons
Snelling
Sperling
Spiers
Spencer
Smith
Smyth
Stevens
Stirling
Stone
Storey
Strudwick
Surgery
Summer
Tanner
Terry
Tasker
Townsend
Tarrant
Thomsett
Turner
Turney
Vabalas
Voller
Von Webb
Wakefield
Walton
Walker
Walsh
Wells
Weston
White
Wicks
Williams
Wilcox
Wood
Wright
This article has been first published in getsurrey