Anyone in Wales with these surnames may be in line for a fortune

Hundreds of estates are yet to be claimed across Wales. It happens when someone dies without leaving a will prompting authorities to assess whether a rightful heir comes forward to claim their inheritance. If nobody comes forward those assets could ultimately be transferred to the UK Government's treasury. Following a person's death there's a 12-year timeframe to claim an estate containing money or 30 years for other types of assets. To establish entitlement claimants must present a family tree proving their relationship to the deceased person. UK Government figures show that most Welsh counties have at least one unclaimed estate on record. For the biggest stories in Wales first sign up to our daily newsletter . When someone dies without a valid or effective will, known as dying intestate, the following parties are entitled to inherit the estate in this order: husband, wife, or civil partner children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on mother or father brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father or their children (nieces and nephews) 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 grandparents uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants) 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 UK Government regularly updates a register of these unclaimed estates listing information including the deceased person's name, dates of birth and death, and their place of death. However, because of inconsistent data entry practices over the decades, organising records by local authority can prove difficult. What follows is a register of individuals who died in Wales leaving behind wealth that remains unclaimed as of June 4, 2026. The full UK-wide register can be accessed here. Jennie Griffiths: 04/03/1924 - 25/04/2011 Peter John Sanders: 21/04/1939 - 17/04/2012 Michael O'Loughlan: 29/09/1937 - 23/02/2014 Stanislaw Osiak: 19/03/1916 - 03/03/1998 Jozef Mocarski: 24/03/1912 - 10/01/1999 Jozef Mocarski: 24/03/1912 - 10/01/1999 Griffith John Griffiths: 11/06/1919 - 12/06/1999 Francis John Hookham: 02/03/1945 - 09/03/2002 Marian Wilczynski: 12/12/1916 - 01/04/2006. Vivian Michael Brownray: 01/09/1920 - 27/08/2005 Gwilym Meurig Roberts: 26/02/1933 - 20/03/2005 James Sheehan: 08/07/1940 - 27/04/2008 Boleslaw Wozniak: 01/11/1918 - 05/01/2009 Elizabeth Peters: 08/11/1915 - 23/08/2001 Stefan Hrynyk: 01/01/1925 - 19/05/2011 Margarita Annelise Sander-Long: 04/12/1917 - 12/05/2013 Thomas Isaac Martin: 23/06/1934 - 01/04/2014 Robert Vivian Thomas: 16/10/1929 - 31/05/2013 Glyn Jones: 16/01/1928 - 27/08/2005 Pawel Kazimierz Kalinowski: 01/02/1927 - 29/11/2013 Lawrence John O'Dell: 19/06/1958 - 04/10/2016 Caroline Ann Brown: 12/01/1954 - 09/11/2019 Margarita Christina Millard: 02/10/1910 - 11/05/1997 Richard Parry Evans: Unknown - 25/05/1998 Eluned Evans: Unknown - 13/08/1998 Christopher John Packer: 20/01/1936 - 20/12/1999 Alan Thomas: 16/07/1955 - 14/02/2024 Mair Eluned Owen: 02/06/1929 - 02/11/2012 Herbert Michael Miller: 11/06/1925 - 22/05/2004 Carlton Willis: Unknown - 21/03/1999 Roger John: 29/10/1946 - 05/06/2003 Franciszek Parda: 12/09/1924 - 21/08/1999 Henry Thomas Lindo: 01/06/1930 - 13/07/2008 Antoni Wojtaniec: 01/01/1922 - 25/04/2008 Barrie John: 12/02/1951 - 13/11/2019 Philip Lewis: 01/11/1948 - 14/06/2020 Brian Davies: 10/10/1919 - 02/01/2000 Henrique Santos: 25/05/1924 - 13/06/2000 Bernhard Tallmeister: 13/08/1924 - 16/09/2000 Noel George Rodriques: 23/11/1914 - 27/08/2000 Rushford Gordon: 05/01/1910 - 17/12/2000 Emanuel Bigeni: 03/01/1920 - 20/06/2000 Nicholas Daniel Gabrilenko: 12/01/1924 - 30/03/2001 Hugh Ravenau: 04/02/1921 - 31/07/2001 Aloke Kumar Dutta: 27/08/1930 - 18/07/2002 Mohammed Abdi Quorshill: Unknown - 20/10/2002 Wladyslaw Polchlopek: 27/06/1926 - 23/04/2003 Frank Spiteri: 23/09/1933 - 21/09/2005 Charles Down: 30/08/1920 - 20/01/2005 John Shiels: 30/11/1951 - 18/08/200 John Jones: 03/08/1943 - 04/03/2006 William Walsh: 10/11/1920 - 03/02/2009 Lionel Harris Williams: 12/11/1927 - 22/09/2009 William Ivan Bell: 08/02/1924 - 30/06/2010 Stephen Mark Timothy Duggan: 26/09/1961 - 27/07/2010 Leonard Baker: 04/11/1934 - 10/04/2011 Joan Lewis: 04/12/1919 - 26/05/2011 Cameron Cassidy: 19/01/1971 - 02/08/2010 Frederick Thomas: 17/10/1931 - 18/04/2010 Rashid Osman Magan: 11/01/1946 - 11/08/2002 James Jordan: 06/04/1945 - 14/07/2012 Ishak Ali: 05/01/1934 - 17/05/2013 Ronald Morland: 05/01/1946 - 26/05/2016 Anthony Frederick Vella: 12/03/1943 - 01/05/2019 Nicholas Sharma: 27/06/1938 - 18/08/2019 John Reilly: 05/02/1941 - 05/05/2018 Leslie John Hankerd: 26/12/1938 - 20/11/2019 Dudley Hendy: 07/11/1945 - 17/11/2021 Janet Broomfield: 18/04/1957 - 03/02/2015 Myra Christine Mills: 08/08/1936 - 05/10/1996 Arthur Smith: Unknown - 24/07/1997 George Gray: 08/07/1911 - 24/03/1999 Sheila Mary Thomas: 25/08/1937 - 09/07/2020 Robert Henley: 24/07/1948 - 24/05/2022 Paul Terrace Goding: 30/05/1956 - 09/11/2021 Lorna Margaret Owen: 05/07/1945 - 28/01/2023. Arthur Smith: Unknown - 24/07/1997 Patrickson Anthony: 03/05/1935 - 31/12/2006 James Edwards: 04/03/1923 - 14/03/2007 Michael Park: 23/12/1944 - 27/02/2008 Raymond Davies: 18/06/1941 - 21/06/2011 Peter Ronald Staples: 09/06/1933 - 19/04/2012 Megan Gwyther: 12/08/1919 - 19/02/2001 Bernard Morris: 24/02/1930 - 26/01/2009 Leon Roper: 23/07/1954 - 27/04/2021 David Reginald Mather: 31/05/1928 - 10/09/1997 Lavinia Gardiner: 30/01/1908 - 22/11/1999 Sarah Davies: 22/12/1921 - 19/07/2001 Catherine Moffat: Unknown - 06/12/2001 Joseph Kretusz: 18/07/1907 - 11/01/2004 Thomas O'Rourke: 15/03/1930 - 24/04/2005 Anne Anthony: 19/02/1923 - 17/09/2006 Teresa Mary Llewelyn: 13/09/1936 - 01/10/2013 Imogene Martyn: 12/04/1944 - 04/08/2019 William Morris: 12/08/1921 - 09/01/2002 Lazar Milinovic: 27/03/1925 - 11/07/2007 Doris Morgan: 07/01/1911 - 22/12/2008 Carole Anne Jones: 03/10/1943 - 13/03/2018 Jacqueline Jane Davies: 25/09/1964 - 19/10/2020 Colin Carter: 05/08/1938 - 06/04/2021 Dudley Walters: 02/07/1923 - 03/10/2006 William Vaughan: 11/11/1932 - 13/08/2009 Nancy Lewis: 06/02/1930 - 05/04/2020 Edward Frederick Davis: Unknown - 25/11/2002 Rafal Tomaszewicz: 23/10/1912 - 02/04/2003 May Roberts: 30/05/1944 - 19/09/2014 Frank Regan: 23/02/1925 - 13/06/1997 Margaret Hall Boydell: 31/03/1911 - 16/09/1997 Anne Elizabeth Mary James: 17/04/1938 - 11/03/2005 Jean Glendinning: 18/08/1931 - 14/01/2001 John Jacob Williams: 01/01/1918 - 11/05/1997 Colin Robert Piercy: 27/03/1946 - 07/01/2004 Olwen Jones: 27/07/1937 - 24/12/2004 Peter Lawrence Johnson: 27/05/1933 - 30/12/2004 Stephen Jacques: 18/12/1948 - 17/04/2010 David Glyn Jones: 29/01/1946 - 08/12/2014 Albert Behm: 25/05/1925 - 17/08/2014 Dennis Thomas: 13/12/1939 - 28/02/2012 Desmond Thomas Johnston: 02/10/1946 - 21/02/2021 Dorothy Mary Gee: 23/06/1941 - 10/10/2020 Patrick Llewellyn: Unknown - 05/12/2000 Ahmed Nasser Ali: 26/03/1923 - 18/08/2000 Leslie Smith: 23/05/1930 - 10/02/2006 George Aubrey Lewis: 01/01/1945 - 28/09/2004 Iwan Romaniw: 19/01/1920 - 10/07/2006 Peter Mitchell: 18/10/1929 - 13/05/2008 Michael Nolan: 07/03/1945 - 20/09/2005 Charles Henry Bryant Hawker: 24/02/1929 - 30/01/2016 Anthony James Coursey: 20/11/1935 - 11/05/2019 Barbara Winifred James: 24/11/1930 - 07/07/2018 Nathaniel Krisstoffer Whitehouse: 12/04/1971 - 03/01/2021 Keith Perkins: 11/08/1946 - 11/01/2022 Mary Theresa Bradley: 03/07/1938 - 14/05/2022 Anthony Colin Hill: 15/11/1953 - 19/09/2022 Thomas Patrick Brazil: 29/07/1916 - 26/11/1997 Betty Annie Tuck: 02/11/1911 - 18/02/1998 Iris Florence Hayes: 14/08/1909 - 10/08/1998 Iris Mary Woodfine: 18/09/1920 - 05/08/2002 Gwendoline Maud Ford: 18/06/1923 - 02/06/2002 William Henry Harding: 29/08/1923 - 12/09/2003 Edgar Schattschneider: 15/09/1925 - 26/07/2009 Margaret Ann Jenkins: Unknown - 04/01/2000 Frederick Macey: 11/05/1920 - 02/06/2009 Joseph Mervyn Parry: 04/02/1933 - 06/02/2003 Dennis Hughes: 27/08/1921 - 18/07/2003 Frances Williams: 28/08/1910 - 24/11/2002 Paula Robinson: 25/10/1966 - 26/01/2011 Shaun Giles Davies: 21/11/1956 - 08/01/2025 Pauline Albans: 24/10/1947 - 02/04/2005 Thomas Smith: 15/05/1928 - 03/02/2009 Marian Frances Holliday: 25/12/1941 - 01/11/2014 Winifred Polek: 03/06/1927 - 31/12/2016 Gethin Melbourne Christopher Raymond: 22/12/1942 - 18/06/2014 Yvonne Jayne Nolan: 05/06/1961 - 10/07/2021 George Brennan: 30/04/1941 - 21/05/2008 Kenneth Miller: 15/05/1937 - 21/11/2020 Fay Reed: 08/02/1941 - 27/04/2005 John Howard Llewellyn: 06/09/1938 - 28/04/2003 George Mitchell: 30/12/1951 - 09/01/2009 Cyril Morris: 07/11/1928 - 28/11/2014 Vladimirs Kazlausks: 13/11/1958 - 03/12/2015 Rudi Hommel: 18/10/1926 - 26/10/2007 Craig Anthony Talbot: 01/10/1977 - 28/10/2022 Roy Patrick MacDonald: 13/12/1948 - 15/11/2023