Hundreds of estates are yet to be claimed in Wales. When someone dies without leaving a will, officials monitor whether a lawful heir has made a claim to their estate. But if no claim is made, the money could make its way into the UK Government’s accounts.
From the day of a person’s death, you have 12 years to apply to claim an estate in the case of money, or 30 years otherwise. If you are eligible to inherit it, you must provide a family tree that proves how you are related to the individual.
Most Welsh counties have at least one unclaimed estate, according to government records. The government publishes a list of these unclaimed estates on a regular basis.
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If someone dies without leaving a valid or effective will (intestate) the following are entitled to the estate in the order shown below:
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husband, wife or civil partner
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children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on
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mother or father
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brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews)
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half brothers or sisters or their children (nieces and nephews of the half blood or their children). ‘Half ’ means they share only one parent with the deceased
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grandparents
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uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants)
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half uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins of the half blood or their children). ‘Half’ means they only share one grandparent with the deceased, not both
The government publishes a list of unclaimed estates, which includes the deceased’s name, date of birth and death, as well as the place of their death. However, over the years some of the data has been entered through different formats, making it difficult to group by local authority. For instance, several deaths in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan were listed as Cardiff. As a result we have grouped both.
Here is a list of people who have died in Wales and have left fortunes which are yet to be passed on as of December 16. You can find the full list across the UK here.
Anglesey
Jenny Griffiths – (04/03/1924 – 25/04/2011)
Michael O’Loughlan – (29/09/1937 – 23/02/2014)
Henry Owen Roberts – (14/06/1939 – 27/09/1995)
Peter John Sanders – (21/04/1939 – 17/04/2012)
Gwynedd
Lawrence John O’Dell – (19/06/1958 – 04/10/2016)
Stefan Hrynyk – (01/01/1925 – 19/05/2011)
Stanislaw Osiak – (19/03/1916 – 03/03/1998)
Marian Wilczynski – (12/12/1916 -01/04/2006)
Caroline Ann Brown – (12/01/1954 – 09/11/2019)
Vivian Michael Brownray – (01/09/1920 – 27/08/2005)
Eluned Evans – (Unknown – 13/08/1998)
Richard Parry Evans – (Unknown – 25/05/1998)
Griffith John Griffiths – (11/06/1919 – 12/06/1999)
Francis John Hookham – (02/03/1945 – 09/03/2002)
Gladys Hughes – (02/11/1919 – 01/02/1995)
Glyn Jones – (16/01/1928 – 27/08/2005)
Kenneth Henry Jones – (06/07/1944 – 08/07/2024)
Pawel Kazimierz Kalinowski – (01/02/1927 – 29/11/2013)
Thomas Isaac Martin – (23/06/1934 – 01/04/2014)
Margarita Christina Millard – 02/10/1910 – 11/05/1997)
Jozef Mocarski – (24/03/1912 – 10/01/1999)
Mair Eluned Owen – (02/06/1929 – 02/11/2012)
Robert Owen-Jones – (07/07/1938 – 27/02/2024)
Christopher John Packer – (20/01/1936 – 20/12/1999)
Elizabeth Peters – (08/11/1915 – 23/08/2001)
Gwilym Meurig Roberts – (26/02/1933 – 20/03/2005)
Margarita Annelise Sander-Long – (04/12/1917 – 12/05/2013)
James Sheehan – (08/07/1940 – 27/04/2008)
Patrick Joseph Skillen – (10/03/1954 – 20/03/2024)
Alan Thomas – (16/07/1955 – 14/02/2024)
Robert Vivian Thomas – (16/10/1929 – 31/05/2013)
Boleslaw Wozniak – (01/11/1918 – 05/01/2009)
Caerphilly
Herbert Michael Miller – (11/06/1925 – 22/05/2004)
Blaenau Gwent
Ronald Jones – (09/08/1951 – 21/04/07)
Lorna Margaret Owen – (05/07/1945 – 28/01/23)
Jim Jones (Unknown – 30/08/1995)
Bridgend
Roger John – (29/10/1946 – 05/06/2003)
Philip Lewis – (01/11/1948 – 14/06/2020)
Barrie John – (12/02/1951 – 13/11/2019)
Franciszek Parda – (12/09/1924 – 21/08/1999)
Reginald Tracey – (19/02/1953 – 30/12/2023)
Carlton Willis – (Unknown – 21/03/1999)
Henry Thomas Lindo – (01/06/1930 – 13/07/2008)
Antoni Wojtaniec – (01/01/1922 – 25/04/2008)
Barrie Gene Weaver – (17/07/1942 – 23/11/2020)
Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan
Violet Hampton – (12/03/1919 – 19/04/1995)
Francis Griffiths – (23/01/1918 – 05/03/2001)
Mohammed Abdi Quorshill – (Unknown – 20/10/2002)
Charles Down – (30/08/1920 – 20/02/2005)
Ishak Ali – (05/01/1934 – 17/05/2013)
Evelyn Briggs – (Unknown – 30/01/1999)
Cameron Cassidy – (19/01/1971 – 02/08/2010)
Nicholas Daniel Gabrilenko – (12/01/1924 – 30/03/2001)
Joan Lewis – (04/12/1919 – 26/05/2011)
Rashid Osman Magan – (11/01/1946 – 11/08/2002)
Neede Poder – (Unknown – 15/12/1996)
Wladyslaw Polchlopek – (27/06/1926 – 23/04/2003)
Noel George Rodriques – (23/11/1914 – 27/08/2000)
Frank Spiteri – (23/09/1933 – 21/09/2005)
Frederick Thomas – (17/10/1931 – 18/04/2010)
John Thomas – (07/06/1932 – 06/08/2001)
Janet Broomfield – (18/04/1957 – 03/02/2015)
Aloke Kumar Dutta – (27/08/1930 – 18/07/2002)
Dudley Hendy – (07/11/1945 – 17/11/2021)
Robert Henley – (24/07/1948 – 24/05/2022)
Jean Hope – (05/11/1931 – 30/07/2020)
Angela Mary Jeffries – (15/05/1947 – 10/03/2015)
Henrique Santos – (25/05/1924 – 13/06/2000)
John Shiels – (30/11/1951 – 18/08/2006)
William Walsh – (10/11/1920 – 03/02/2009)
Lionel Harris Williams – (12/11/1927 – 22/09/2009)
Stephen Mark Timothy Duggan 26/09/1961 – 27/07/2010)
Rushford Gordon – (05/01/1910 – 17/12/2000)
George Gray – (08/07/1911 – 24/03/1999)
Leslie John Hankerd – 26/12/1938 – 20/11/2019)
John Jones – (03/08/1943 – 04/03/2006)
Zanis Kampers – 07/12/1924 – 27/01/1995)
Myra Christine Mills – (08/08/1936 – 05/10/1996)
Ronald Morland – 05/01/1946 – 26/05/2016)
Robert Trevor Owen – (06/01/1931 – 25/08/2022)
Hugh Ravenau – (04/02/1921 – 31/07/2001)
John Reilly – (05/02/1941 – 05/05/2018)
Nicholas Sharma – 27/06/1938 – 18/08/2019)
Bernhard Tallmeister – (13/08/1924 – 16/09/2000)
Sheila Mary Thomas – (25/08/1937 – 09/07/2020)
Anthony Frederick Vella – (12/03/1943 – 01/05/2019)
Arthur Smith – (unknown – 24/07/1997)
Brian Davies – (10/10/1919 – 02/01/2000)
James Jordan – (06/04/1945 – 14/07/2012)
Frank Morgan – (30/10/1935 – 29/02/2015)
William Ivan Bell – (08/02/1924 – 30/06/2010)
Leonard Baker – (04/11/1934 – 10/04/2011)
Henry Seymour Bramley – (29/05/1924 – 30/12/2006)
Emanuel Bigeni – (03/01/1920 – 20/06/2000)
Margaret Rose May – (25/06/1943 – 23/11/2014)
Carole Anne Jones – (03/10/1943 – 13/03/2018)
Maureen O’Brien – (04/04/1938 – 11/05/2001
Anthony George Hades – (11/10/1951 – 21/11/2017)
John Matthews – (27/05/1937 – 08/07/2007)
Josephine Mary Oakley – (06/01/1926 – 29/01/2004)
Patrickson Anthony – 03/05/1935 – 31/12/2006)
Raymond Davies – (18/06/1941 – 21/06/2011)
James Edwards – (04/03/1923 – 14/03/2007)
Nellie Mary Phillips – (11/02/1907 – 15/03/1997)
Peter Ronald Staples – (09/06/1933 – 19/04/2012)
Elizabeth Thompson – (unknown – 13/03/1996)
Merthyr Tydfil
Bernard Morris – (24/02/1930 – 26/01/2009)
Megan Gwyther – (12/08/1919 – 19/02/2001)
Hilda Moroney – (19/09/1910 – 27/06/1999)
Leon Sean Roper – (23/07/1954 – 27/04/2021)
Neil Gwyn Stonelake – (02/04/1960 – 13/08/2022)
David Reginald Mather – (31/05/1928 – 10/09/1997)
Malcolm John – (Howard 27/07/1950 – 27/12/2017)
Carmarthenshire
Joseph Kretusz – (18/07/1907 – 11/01/2004)
Catherine Moffat – (unknown – 06/12/2001)
Teresa Mary Llewelyn – (13/09/1936 – 01/10/2013)
William Evans – (27/12/1921 – 22/09/2007)
Thomas O’Rourke – (15/03/1930 – 24/04/2005)
Anne Anthony (19/02/1923 – 17/09/2006)
Sarah Davies – (22/12/1921 – 19/07/2001)
Imogene Martyn – (12/04/1944 – 04/08/2019)
Ivy Maude Owen – (03/03/1914 – 16/01/2007)
Jan Wojtkiewicz – (28/10/1926 – 16/03/2013)
Richard Desmond Walters – (03/03/1933 – 26/11/2009)
Rhondda Cynon Taf
William Morris – (12/08/1921 – 09/01/2002)
William Jeffrey Matthews – (17/01/1951 – 22/06/2024)
John Phillips – (21/05/1931 – 21/04/2004)
Lazar Milinovic – (27/03/1925 – 11/07/2007)
Gertrude Liesbeth Margarete Bethell (Unknown – 26/01/1995)
Elizabeth Mary Morris 13/09/1907 – 31/03/1999)
Doris Morgan – (07/01/1911 – 22/12/2008)
Brian Davies – (29/12/1950 – 04/12/2023)
John Griffiths – (18/02/1946 – 03/12/2023)
Colin Carter – (05/08/1938 – 06/04/2021)
Jacqueline Jane Davies – (25/09/1964 – 19/10/2020)
Gillian Champ – (06/09/1948 – 04/03/2020)
Monmouthshire
Percy Baynham Broadhead (Unknown – 21/01/1940
David Robert Powell – (18/05/1956 – 21/04/2019)
Stephen Anthony Price – (26/08/1968 – 04/08/2022)
Kathleen Smith – (11/08/1932 – 09/11/2012)
Peter John Taylor – (25/09/1965 – 04/06/2023)
Dennis Cyril Thomas – (15/03/1937 – 06/09/2024)
Alan Jesse Winter – (15/09/1944 – 04/02/2019)
Nancy Lewis – (06/02/1930 – 05/04/2020)
Eileen Van Eyssen – (05/05/1944 – 03/04/2024)
William Vaughan – (11/11/1932 – 13/08/2009)
Dudley Walters – (02/07/1923 – 03/10/2006)
Conwy
Frank Regan – (23/02/1925 – 13/06/1997)
May Roberts – (30/05/1944 – 19/09/2014)
Edward Frederick Davis – (unknown25/11/2002)
Edward Frederick Luckarift – (23/01/1920 – 29/03/2010)
Rafal Tomaszewicz – (23/10/1912 – 02/04/2003)
Michael Park – (23/12/1944 – 27/02/2008)
Ceredigion
Morwen Elizabeth Jones – (24/09/1951 – 20/10/2023)
Mary Morforwyn Lewis – (13/11/1927 – 08/01/1997)
John George Mason – (22/03/1971 – 20/10/2017)
Anne Elizabeth Mary James – (17/04/1938 – 11/03/2005)
Frederick Richard Smart – (unknown – 11/01/1995)
Denbighshire
Maureen Frances O’Donovan – (08/10/1943 – 03/10/2020)
Olwen Jones – (27/07/1937 – 24/12/2004)
Colin Robert Piercy – (27/03/1946 – 07/01/2004)
William Wee – (06/05/1925 – 20/10/2006)
Margaret Lilian Williamson – (21/09/1924 – 03/07/2005)
Peter Allan Talbot – (30/12/1946 -10/03/2014)
Robert Griffiths – (18/11/1945 – 15/01/2020)
Margaret Hall Boydell – (31/03/1911 – 16/09/1997)
Ellis Powell Jones – (20/02/1912 – 10/08/1998)
Valerie Hickman – (13/07/1952 – 06/02/2022)
Stephen Jacques – (18/12/1948 – 17/04/2010)
Winifred Shelton – (29/09/1914 – 19/11/2009)
Thomas George Davies – (Unknown – 10/04/1996)
Harold Pearson Bark – (11/04/1935 – 08/04/2024)
Malcolm George Roberts – (02/12/1961 – 11/06/2022)
Dorothy Mary Gee – (23/06/1941 – 10/10/2020)
Jean Glendinning – (18/08/1931 – 14/01/2001)
Peter Lawrence Johnson – (27/05/1933 – 30/12/2004)
Desmond Thomas Johnston – (02/10/1946 – 21/02/2021)
David Glyn Jones – (29/01/1946 – 08/12/2014)
Dennis Thomas (13/12/1939 – 28/02/2012)
Albert Behm – (25/05/1925 – 17/08/2014)
Swansea
Tedor Joseph- Kuzaj – (Unknown – 10/12/1995)
Patrick- Llewellyn – (Unknown – 05/12/2000)
Michael- Nolan- (07/03/1945- 20/09/2005)
Iwan- Romaniw – (19/01/1920- 10/07/2006)
George Aubrey-Lewis -( 01/01/1945- 28/09/2004)
Peter- Mitchell – (18/10/1929- 13/05/2008)
Keith- Perkins – (11/08/1946- 11/01/2022)
Leslie- Smith – (23/05/1930- 10/02/2006)
Betty Annie- Tuck – ( 02/11/1911- 18/02/1998)
Nathaniel Krisstoffer – Whitehouse- (12/04/1971- 03/01/2021)
Anthony James- Coursey – (20/11/1935- 11/05/2019)
Charles Henry Bryant- Hawker – (24/02/1929- 30/01/2016)
Ivy-Clarke- (Unknown – 04/11/1995)
Barbara Winifred-James – (24/11/1930- 07/07/2018)
Ahmed Nasser-Ali – (26/03/1923- 18/08/2000)
Mary Theresa Bradley – (03/07/1938- 14/05/2022)
Iris Florence – Hayes – (14/08/1909- 10/08/19980
Anthony Colin- Hill – (15/11/1953- 19/09/2022)
Powys
William HenryHarding – (29/08/1923 – 12/09/2003)
Margaret Ann Jenkins – (Unknown – 04/01/2000)
Anand Shraddhan – (27/11/1948 – 30/12/2022)
Edgar Schattschneider – (15/09/1925 – 26/07/2009)
Jennie Griffiths – (04/03/1924 – 25/04/2011)
Gwendoline Maud Ford – (18/06/1923 – 02/06/2002)
Iris Mary Woodfine – (18/09/1920 – 05/08/2002)
Wrexham
Frances Kathleen Rowley – (06/10/1914 – 16/04/2003)
Athol Ernest Cowen – (18/01/1942 – 04/10/2010)
Elizabeth Hayes – (15/01/1944 – 25/07/2017)
Margaret Ellen Jones – (13/06/1926 – 31/08/2007)
Maidie Kirkham-Thomas – (06/04/1923 – 06/01/1999)
Malcolm McGifford McCleery (19/07/1927 – 14/05/2009)
AnnaParys – (09/03/1911 – 06/01/2002)
Kevin Roberts – (29/05/1968 – 21/02/2017)
William Roberts – (09/04/1910 – 27/03/1995)
Gwyn Owen (23/07/1929 – 13/10/2019)
Dennis Hughes – (27/08/1921 – 18/07/2003)
Paula Robinson – (25/10/1966 – 26/01/2011)
Caerphilly
Herbert Michael Miller – (11/06/1925 – 22/05/2004)
Torfaen
Anna Marie Stenson – (07/07/1961 – 08/04/2024)
Frederick Macey – (11/05/1920 – 02/06/2009)
Terence Evans – (03/09/1939 – 09/05/2000)
Nickolas Vicoras – (13/12/1913 – 01/10/2007)
Flintshire
Dyreck Littlewood (12/05/1934 – 28/01/2011)
Frances Williams – (28/08/1910 – 24/11/2002)
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Pembrokeshire
Pauline Albans – (24/10/1947 – 02/04/2005)
Hywe lJames – (10/08/1939 – 16/08/2023)
Yvonne Jayne Nolan – (05/06/1961 – 10/07/2021)
Winifred Polek – (03/06/1927 – 31/12/2016)
Gethin Melbourne Christophe rRaymond – (22/12/1942 – 18/06/2014)
James Smith – (20/10/1932 – 03/05/2018)
Jan Pincsuk – (Unknown – 12/05/1995)
Minnie Johnson – (Unknown – 31/07/1996)
Marian Frances Holliday – 25/12/1941 – 01/11/2014)
Thomas Smith – (15/05/1928 – 03/02/2009)
Neath Port Talbot
George Brennan – (30/04/1941 – 21/05/2008)
Ashley Charles Howell Williams – (21/01/1949 – 23/02/2013)
Kenneth Miller – (15/05/1937 – 21/11/2020)
Newport
Gordon Carr-Simmonds – (10/07/1948 – 17/02/2020)
Rudi Hommel – (18/10/1926 – 26/10/2007)
Vladimirs Kazlausks (13/11/1958 – 03/12/2015)
John Howard Llewellyn – (06/09/19382 – 8/04/2003)
Fay Maureen Reed – (08/02/1941 – 27/04/2005)
Craig Anthony Talbot – (01/10/1977 – 28/10/2022)
Mair Whiting – (05/09/1942 – 20/09/2010)
George Mitchell – (30/12/1951 – 09/01/2009)
Cyril Morris – (07/11/1928 – 28/11/2014)
Unknown area
William Edward Williams – (Unknown 11/08/1995)
Jim Jones – (Unknown – 30/08/1995)