New information from the Treasury has revealed that there are dozens of unclaimed estates of people who died in Suffolk, with hundreds of thousands of pounds up in the air until an heir is found.
When someone dies with no will or known family, their property is then passed onto the Crown and is classed as ownerless.
The surnames of deceased people in Suffolk where estates are unclaimed include Adams, Owers, and Carey.
The unclaimed estates advertised by the Treasury have a net value of £500 or above. Further details how to make a claim are available on the government website.
These are the surnames of those in Suffolk with unclaimed estates, and their place of death, as of June 1, 2023:
Adams – Bungay
Bennett – Ipswich
Blackman – Stowmarket
Braganza-Evans – Southwold
Brown – Eye
Carey – Newmarket
Carter – Lowestoft
Cleare – Lowestoft
Cooper – Ipswich
Eddon – Leiston
Elliott – Leiston
Fromelins – Ipswich
Furnival – Lowestoft
Gula – Bury St Edmunds
Gustowski – Bury St Edmunds
Harris – Sudbury
Hopkinson – Sudbury
Jaskulski – Felixstowe
Krogulec – Sudbury
Krozak – Stowmarket
Lingwood – Brandon
Lysenko – Felixstowe
McSweeney – Saxmundham
Miles – Lowestoft
Newson – Bury St Edmunds
O’Brien – Stowmarket
Ong – Suffolk (unknown)
Owers – Ipswich
Parkes – Felixstowe
Perry-Mason – Bury St Edmunds
Phelan – Saxmundham
Reeve – Bury St Edmunds
Rielly – Bury St Edmunds
Roberts – Ipswich
Roche – Stowmarket
Schonborn – Ipswich
Stephenson – Bury St Edmunds
Stopher – Stowmarket
Suckling – Sudbury
Thompson – Bury St Edmunds
Vansittart – Ipswich
Watt – Bury St Edmunds
Whiting – Saxmundham
Yunas – Eye