Many unclaimed estates in Wales, listed by the UK government, await potential heirs. Claim if you have Welsh ancestry.
Almost every area in Wales holds such estates. Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan have the most, with 58 unclaimed estates. Gwynedd comes next, with a total of 25. Caerphilly, Ceredigion, and Torfaen only have one each.
If someone dies with no will or family, the Crown gets the estate. The Treasury then manages everything.
You have twelve years to claim an estate, starting once the Crown knows it is unclaimed. To claim, show your family tree. It must prove how you connect to that person.
Spouses and kids inherit first; grandkids are next. Parents, siblings, and half-siblings also come before others. Grandparents proceed aunts and uncles. Half-aunts and half-uncles also qualify. Below is the list by county as of February 5, 2025.
Anglesey has Jennie Griffiths, Michael O’Loughlan, and Henry Owen Roberts. Also on the list is Peter John Sanders.
Gwynedd includes Carol Ann Brown and Vivian Michael Brownray. Eluned Evans and Richard Parry Evans also appear. Griffith John Griffiths and Francis John Hookham are listed. So is Stefan Hrynyk. The list goes on with Glyn Jones and Pawel Kazimierz Kalinowski. Thomas Isaac Martin and Margarita Christina Millard appear. Jozef Mocarski and Lawrence John O’Dell also appear. Stanislaw Osiak and Mair Eluned Owen are next. Christopher John Packer and Elizabeth Peters are listed. Gwilym Meurig Roberts and Margarita Annelise Sander-Long too. James Sheehan appears, plus Patrick Joseph Skillen. Alan Thomas and Robert Vivian Thomas appear. Marian Wilczynski and Boleslaw Wozniak finish the list.
Caerphilly only lists Herbert Michael Miller. Bridgend includes Barrie John and Roger John. Philip Lewis also appears with Henry Thomas Lindo. Franciszek Parda and Reginald Tracey are included. Carlton Willis and Antoni Wojtaniec finish this list.
Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan lists Ishak Ali and Patrickson Anthony. Leonard Baker and William Ivan Bell come next. Emanuel Bigeni and Evelyn Briggs are also on the list. Janet Broomfield and Cameron Cassidy follow. Brian Davies and Raymond Davies also appear. Charles Down and Stephen Mark Timothy Duggan are also on the list.
Aloke Kumar Dutta and James Edwards come afterward. Andrew Neil Furnival and Nicholas Daniel Gabrilenko are also listed. Rushford Gordon and George Gray appear too. Anthony George Hades and Leslie John Hankerd are included as well. Dudley Hendy and Robert Henley follow.
Rose Mary Higgins and Jean Hope also appear. The list continues with Angela Mary Jeffries and John Jones. James Jordan and Joan Lewis are listed further. Rashid Osman Magan and John Matthews come after.
John McKean and Myra Christine Mills follow next. Ronald Morland and Josephine Mary Oakley are also on the list. Maureen O’Brien and Robert Trevor Owen appear too. Michael Park and Nellie Mary Phillips are also listed next. Neede Poder follows along with Wladyslaw Polchlopek.
Mohammed Abdi Quorshill and Hugh Ravenau also appear on the list. John Reilly and Noel George Rodriques follow afterwards. Henrique Santos and Nicholas Sharma are also included. John Shiels and Arthur Smith come next. Frank Spiteri and Peter Ronald Staples follow soon after. Bernhard Tallmeister and Frederick Thomas also appear on the list.
John Thomas and Sheila Mary Thomas are listed too, after them Elizabeth Thompson joins the list. Then Anthony Frederick Vella and William Walsh appear too on the list. Finally Lionel Harris Williams finishes it.
Merthyr Tydfil includes Megan Gwyther and Malcolm John Howard. Hilda Maroney and David Reginald Mather are next. Bernard Morris and Leon Sean Roper finish it.
Carmarthenshire shows Anne Anthony and Sarah Davies. William Evans and Lavinia Gardiner followed.
Joseph Kretusz and Teresa Mary Llewelyn are listed also. The list contains Imogene Martyn and Catherine Moffat. Thomas O’Rourke and Ivy Maude Owen finish it up.
Rhondda Cynon Taf lists Colin Carter and Brian Davies. Jacqueline Jane Davies and John Griffiths appear next. The list includes Carole Anne Jones and Lazar Milinovic. Doris Morgan and Elizabeth Mary Morris also appear on the list. William Morris completes this list of names.
Monmouthshire includes Nancy Lewis and William Vaughan. Dudley Walters finishes the list here.
Conwy lists Margaret Hall Boydell and Edward Frederick Davis. George Kenway and Frank Regan also appear. May Roberts and Rafal Tomaszewicz complete this list.
Ceredigion includes only Anne Elizabeth Mary James.
Denbigshire contains Albert Behm and Dorothy Mary Gee. Jean Glendinning and Stephen Jacques are also mentioned.
Peter Lawrence Johnson and Desmond Thomas Johnston also appear. David Glyn Jones and Olwen Jones are listed too. Colin Robert Piercy and Dennis Thomas follow. John Jacob Williams completes this list.
Swansea lists Ahmed Nasser Ali and Mary Theresa Bradley. Thomas Patrick Brazil and Ivy Clarke also appear on the listing.
Anthony James Coursey and Charles Henry Bryant Hawker join. Iris Florence Hayes and Anthony Colin Hill are included. Barbara Winifred James and Tedor Joseph Kuzaj come next.
George Aubrey Lewis and Patrick Llewellyn are listed too. The list mentions Peter Mitchell and Michael Nolan. Keith Perkins and Iwan Romaniw join the listing as well. Leslie Smith and Betty Annie Tuck are also there. Nathaniel Krisstoffer Whitehouse completes it there.
Powys includes Gwendoline Maud Ford and William Henry Harding. Margaret Ann Jenkins and Edgar Schattschneider follow too. Iris Mary Woodfine completes Powys’ list.
Wrexham lists Athol Ernest Cowen and Elizabeth Hayes. Margaret Ellen Jones and Maidie Kirkham-Thomas also appear.
Malcolm McGifford McCleery and Gwyn Owen are listed too. Anna Parys and Michal Rad follow afterward on the list. William Roberts and Frances Kathleen Rowley finish it.
Torfaen has only Frederick Macey on its list.
Flintshire includes Dennis Hughes and Dyreck Littlewood. Joseph Mervyn Parry and Paula Robinson are then listed. Frances Williams completes the list from Flintshire.