You may not know it but, if you have the right surname, you could be about to come into some serious money.
If somebody dies without a will and their family cannot be traced, their money and property pass to the Government. However, relatives may be entitled to a share of the estate.
The unclaimed estates list was updated this week.
There are currently 86 unclaimed estates in Derby and Derbyshire and there is a chance you could make a claim to one of them today if you’ve got the right surname!
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 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 an sharp increase in numbers over the past few years because Government cuts mean that there is no search for a will before an unclaimed estate is added to the list.
These are the surnames of unclaimed Derbyshire estates:
Akinyeye
Atkins
Attwood
Bannister
Bannon
Barr
Bartosz
Berzins
Boyle
Brown
Bull
Caddick
Cannon
Cephlitis
Chappell
Cholodowski
Clegg
Connolly
Davies
Day
Dodds
Ellis
Frajmut
Fraser
Gaunt
Glowaki
Goluwko
Hales
Hallam
Harrison
Harry
Hawkins
Higgins
Hilson
Holt
Hudson
Jakowicz
Johnson
Kennard
Knight
Krumins
Lavelle
Loach
Lord
Lowe
Lowry
MacCabe
Matthews
Mayne
McGee
McGlynn
McGowan
McPhail
Miller
Milne
Nightingale
Noble
Noton
Perehinec
Pietrzykowski
Rennie
Robertson
Shaw
Simpson
Slater
Slizys
Smith
Stasiolek
Struzik
Stubbs
Sykes
Tarasiewicz
Thompson
Townsley
Trajkovic
Varsha
Vince
Was
Watson
Weston
Westwood
Whitehouse
Wild
Williams
Wilson
Wright
This article has been first published in derbishirelive