FOUR new estates in Oxfordshire have been added to a long list of unclaimed properties, possessions and money.
People could inherit hundreds to thousands of pounds through these estates if related to the deceased person who owned the estate.
However, if a person dies without leaving a will and there appear to be no family members their estate passes to the Crown as ownerless property, or ‘Bona Vacantia’.
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In general, estates held on the Bona Vacantia list can be claimed within a 12-year deadline, from the date the estate was taken into possession of the Crown.
You could be entitled to a share of a deceased relative’s property if you are related.
There are currently a grand total of 60 unclaimed estates across the county county.
Full list of unclaimed estates in Oxfordshire
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
- Noah, Josephine: 12/05/1963, Paddington Westminster – 15/09/2021, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Slevogt-Clark, Ursula Blandine Laura Adelheid: 11/01/1940, Germany – 05/02/2022, Watlington Oxfordshire
- Somodi, Maria: 06/10/1959, Hungary – 25/05/2019, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Barber, Gerald: 13/05/1932, Unknown – 14/08/2004, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Brantner, Olga Katharina Martina: 08/07/1913, Eggenberg Germany – 05/10/2000, Wallingford Oxfordshire
- Butler, Kenneth Brian: 28/03/1933, Oxford Oxfordshire – 13/12/2007, Bicester Oxfordshire
- Byfield, Herbert: 19/05/1927, St. Mary's Jamaica – 05/12/2000, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Carden, Lilian: 10/12/1905, London – 13/11/1998, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Chapnik, Ilia: 30/12/1899, Unknown – 08/07/1997, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Cooper, Joan: 25/01/1941, Bolton Greater Manchester – 18/09/2009, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Darczyc, Jan: 20/10/1916, Poland – 01/02/2003, Kingham Oxfordshire
- Davis, Maud Clara: 12/02/1913, Bristol Avon – 24/10/1999, Sandford-on-Thames Oxford
- Ebers, Alexandra Mary: 12/12/1926, Ukraine – 15/12/1999, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Garlick, Harold Nicholas: 27/09/1920, Scotland – 26/07/1994, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Gonsalves, Kenneth Anthony: 27/10/1932, Guyana – 04/05/2001, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Greenaway, Elizabeth Hedwig: 30/11/1909, Graudenz Germany – 03/01/2005, Faringdon Oxfordshire
- Harper, George: 17/02/1919, Oxfordshire – 28/11/2004, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Johnson, Caroline Juliana: 30/07/1940, Freetown Sierra Leone West Africa – 24/11/2002, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Kearney, John-Jack: 15/04/1940, Irish Republic – 16/09/2001, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Keleman, John: 14/07/1915, Hungary – 13/07/1995, Headington Oxford
- Lacey, Charles: 08/08/1916, Unknown – 07/11/2000, Wallingford Oxfordshire
- Lyha, Hryhary: 11/06/1917, Poland – 26/01/1999, Oxford Oxfordshire
- McDonald, Alistair: 12/04/1910, Glasgow Scotland – 20/12/2007, Oxford Oxfordshire
- McErlean, Norman: 16/05/1947, Unknown – 31/05/2004, Oxford Oxfordshire
- O'Connor, Sheila: 10/02/1925, Eire – 31/08/2006, Wallingford Oxfordshire
- O'Connor, William: 19/06/1912, Eire – 31/07/1993, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Petrenko, Fedir: 05/02/1915, Stry Ukraine – 17/08/1999, Bicester Oxfordshire
- Popat, Purghottam Vithaldas: 01/02/1922, India – 11/11/2003, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Rosickyj, Stefan: 11/11/1925, Poland – 22/09/2002, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Smith, Charles: 24/08/1941, Unknown – 18/02/2004, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Smith, Simon: 12/09/1914, Unknown – 06/03/2006, Standford in the Vale Oxfordshire
- Smythe, George: 02/02/1920, Ireland – 10/12/1996, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Spence, John: 09/08/1926, County Durham – 27/11/2001, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Sullivan, Thomas Joseph: 08/05/1930, Ireland – 01/02/2008, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Syz, Madeleine: 29/11/1910, Switzerland – 12/05/1993, Bullingdon Oxfordshire
- Talbot, Rose: 02/08/1911, Oxford – 03/01/2001, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Thompson, Hilda Lillian: 20/10/1924, Clapham – 16/03/2007, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Von Kahler, Marianna Franziska Anna: 30/12/1899, Unknown – 13/11/1993, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Walsh, Gerald Bernard: 02/12/1956, Unknown – 16/05/2006, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Weston, Lillian: 25/12/1918, Unknown – 03/09/2003, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Wright, Arthur: 01/05/1920, Unknown – 12/12/2004, Sandford-on-Thames Oxfordshire
- Nightingale, Toni Joanne Lorna Denise Ruth: 21/04/1965, St John's Wood Westminster – 21/04/2021, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Austin, Douglas George: 16/06/1936, Berkshire – 09/04/2020, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Lewis, Stephen Christopher: 08/03/1954, Unknown – 08/07/2020, Watlington Oxfordshire
- Cashman, Joseph: 11/03/1933, Unknown – 23/09/2018, Banbury Oxfordshire
- Gigliotti, Luigi: 16/11/1940, Italy – 13/12/2018, Kidlington Oxfordshire
- Bullock, Ahmed Roy: 01/08/1924, Oxford – 25/10/2018, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Compton, David Donald Leslie: 25/07/1930, London – 30/06/2004, Banbury Oxfordshire
- O'Malley, Patrick John: 10/08/1936, Unknown – 09/05/2018, Oxford Oxfordshire
- Ely, Susan: 13/12/1953, Henley – 15/08/2016, Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire
- Haldar, Amrita: 01/11/1930, India – 23/08/2015, Chipping Norton Oxfordshire
- Wyatt, Elizabeth: 11/02/1930, Oxford – 18/12/2014, Kidlington Oxfordshire
- Millen, Hugh Edgar: 26/11/1925, Headington Oxfordshire – 04/05/2007, Bath Somerset
- Heath, Carol Ann: 19/10/1954, Henley On Thames Oxfordshire – 03/10/2017, High Wycombe Buckinghamshire
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If you think you may have a claim on an estate, visit: gov.uk/guidance/make-a-claim-to-a-deceased-persons-estate
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This story was written by Gee Harland. She joined the team in 2022 as a senior multimedia reporter.
Gee covers Wallingford, Wantage and Didcot.
Get in touch with her by emailing: Gee.harland@newsquest.co.uk
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