Unclaimed Estates in Berkshire 

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 a 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.

This article has been first published in getreading.