People in Scotland could be entitled to inherit almost 100 estates that have gone unclaimed across the region.
When somebody dies with no written will or known family, their estate is passed to the Crown where it is held, waiting to be claimed.
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The estates are kept for 30 years, after which they become the property of the Crown and Treasury.
But in the meantime, any relatives who couldn’t be tracked down at the time of death can still make a claim on the estate, and bag themselves an inheritance.
The government publishes a list of these unclaimed estates on a regular basis.
There are currently 93 unclaimed estates which belonged to people with a connection to Scotland.
The following estates have been added since the start of the year:
Surname, Forename: Date of birth,Place of birth - Date of death, Place of death
- Mack, Alan Cameron: 05/10/1934, Old Kilpatrick West Dunbartonshire - 28/01/2019, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Clarke, James Cleghorn: 11/08/1942, Ayrshire - 23/04/2019, Gloucester Gloucestershire
- Anderson, William Archibald: 08/11/1951, Edinburgh Scotland - 11/05/2021, Denmark Hill Lambeth
- McHugh, Mary Houston Ferguson: 20/03/1912, Tillicoultry Scotland - 28/02/2004, Grimsby Lincolnshire
- Dean, Myra: 26/06/1927, Edinburgh - 22/12/2018, Driffield East Riding of Yorkshire
- Fuchs, Alfred: 17/01/1949, Scotland - 27/02/2020, Westminster London W2
- Rae, Douglas Alan: 07/09/1942, Kelvingrove Glasgow - 22/06/2018, Bristol
If you think that you may have a claim on an estate you should visit the government’s website - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/make-a-claim-to-a-deceased-persons-estate .
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