If you're from Wales and have one of these surnames there could be a fortune waiting for you to inherit

There are over 100 unclaimed estates waiting to be inherited in Wales, according to the UK Government. The names are collected to form the bona vacantia list - meaning “vacant goods”- that lists people in Wales who died without leaving a will and with no known next of kin.

In Gwynedd, 25 estates have yet to be claimed, which is the highest in Wales on the list. Cardiff comes in second with 19 fortunes left to no-one and there are 13 unclaimed in Denbighshire.

When someone dies without a will and with no known beneficiary, the Crown effectively takes the ownerless estate. The treasury solicitor then takes responsibility for dealing with the asset. Family members and heirs have 12 years to claim an estate once it has been reported unclaimed to the Crown. For the latest Welsh news delivered to your inbox sign up to our newsletter

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The list below is separated by each county in Wales. You can search through the list to see if there are any names you recognise as potential heirs. Get the best user experience with WalesOnline’s Premium app on Apple or Android

Blaenau Gwent

• No-one on the list

Bridgend

• Antoni Wojtaniec (01/01/1922-25/04/2008)
• Henry Thomas Lindo (01/06/1930-13/07/2008)

Caerphilly

• Herbert Michael Miller (11/06/1925-22/05/2004)

Cardiff

• Ishak Ali (05/01/1934-17/05/2013)
• Evelyn Briggs (unknown-30/01/1999)
• Cameron Cassidy (19/01/1971-02/08/2010)
• Nicholas Daniel Gabrilenko (12/01/1924-30/03/2001)
• Joan Lewis (04/12/1919-26/05/2011)
• Rashid Osman Magan (11/01/1946-11/08/2002)
• Neede Poder (unknown-15/12/1996)
• Wladyslaw Polchlopek (27/06/1926-23/04/2003)
• Noel George Rodriques (23/11/1914-27/08/2000)
• Frank Spiteri (23/09/1933-21/09/2003)
• Frederick Thomas (17/10/1931-18/04/2010)
• John Thomas (07/06/1932-06/08/2001)
• Leonard Baker (04/11/1934-10/04/2011)
• William Ivan Bell (08/02/1924-30/06/2010)
• Emanuel Bigeni (03/01/1920-20/06/2000)
• Brian Davies (10/10/1919-02/01/2000)
• Charles Down (30/08/1920-20/01/2005)
• James Jordan (06/04/1945-14/07/2012)
• Mohammed Abdi Quorshill (unknown-20/10/2002)

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Carmarthenshire

• Catherine Moffat (unknown-06/12/2001)
• Anne Anthony (19/02/1923-17/09/2006)
• Sarah Davies (22/12/1921-19/07/2001)
• Lavinia Gardiner (30/01/1908-22/11/1999)
• Joseph Kretusz (18/07/1907-11/01/2004)
• Imogene Martyn (12/04/1944-04/08/2019)
• Thomas O’Rourke (15/03/1930-24/04/2005)
• Benjamin Sturgess (16/11/1937-23/03/2017)

Ceredigion

• Anne Elizabeth Mary James (17/04/1938-11/03/2005)

Conwy

• Margaret HallBoydell (31/03/1911-16/09/1997)
• Edward Frederick Davis (unknown-25/11/2002)
• Frank Regan (23/02/1925-13/06/1997)
• May Roberts (30/05/1914-19/09/2014)
• Rafal Tomaszewicz (23/10/1912-02/04/2003)

Denbighshire

• Albert Behm (25/05/1925-17/08/2014)
• Dorothy Mary Gee (23/06/1941-10/10/2020)
• Jean Glendinning (18/08/1931-14/01/2001)
• Stephen Jacques (18/12/1948-17/04/2010)
• Peter Lawrence Johnson (27/05/1933-30/12/2004)
• Desmond Thomas Johnston (02/10/1946-21/02/2021)
• David Glyn Jones (29/01/1946-08/12/2014)
• David John Jones (unknown-09/02/1998)
• Olwen Jones (27/07/1937-24/12/2004)
• Catherine Elizabeth Dorothy Kendall (unknown-20/05/1994)
• Colin Robert Piercy (27/03/1946 -07/01/2004)
• Dennis Thomas (13/12/1939-28/02/2012)
• John Jacob Williams (01/01/1918-11/05/1997)

Flintshire

• Dyreck Littlewood (12/05/1934-28/01/2011)
• Joseph Mervyn Parry (04/04/1933-06/02/2003)
• Frances Williams (28/08/1910-24/11/2000)

Gwynedd

• Eluned Evans (unknown-13/08/1998)
• Richard Parry Evans (unknown-25/05/1998)
• Jozef Mocarski (24/03/1912-10/01/1999)
• Caroline Ann Brown (12/01/1954-09/11/2019)
• Vivian Michael Brownray (01/09/1920-27/08/2005)
• Griffith John Griffiths (11/06/1919-12/06/1999)
• Francis John Hookham (02/03/1945-09/03/2002)
• Stefan Hrynyk (01/01/1925-19/05/2011)
• Gladys Hughes (02/11/1919-01/02/1995)
• Ellen Lloyd Jones (26/07/1912-21/04/1994)
• Glyn Jones (16/01/1928-27/08/2005)
• Pawel Kazimierz Kalinowski (01/02/1927-29/11/2013)
• Thomas Isaac Martin (23/06/1934-01/04/2014)
• Lawrence John O'Dell (19/06/1958-04/10/2016)
• Stanislaw Osiak (19/03/1916-03/03/1998)
• Mair Eluned Owen (02/06/1929-02/11/2012)
• Christopher John Packer (20/01/1936-20/12/1999)
• Elizabeth Peters (08/11/1915-23/08/2001)
• Gwilym Meurig Roberts (26/02/1933-20/03/2005)
• Margarita Annelise Sander-Long (04/12/1917-12/05/2013)
• James Sheehan (08/07/1940-27/04/2008)
• Robert Vivian Thomas (16/10/1929-31/05/2013)
• Marian Wilczynski (12/12/1916-01/04/2006)
• Boleslaw Wozniak (01/11/1918-05/01/2009)

Isle of Anglesey

• Jennie Griffiths (04/03/1924-25/04/2011)

Merthyr Tydfil

• Bernard Morris (24/02/1930-26/01/2009)

Monmouthshire

• Nancy Lewis (06/02/1930-05/04/2020)
• William Vaughan (11/11/1932-13/08/2009)
• Dudley Walters (02/07/1923-03/10/2006)

Neath Port Talbot

• No-one on the list

Newport

• George Mitchell (30/12/1951-09/01/2009)
• Cyril Morris (07/11/1928-28/11/2014)

Pembrokeshire

• Pauline Albans (24/10/1947-02/04/2005)
• Marian Frances Holliday (25/12/1941-01/11/2014)
• Yvonne JayneNolan ( 05/06/1961-10/07/2021)
• Winifred Polek (03/06/1927-31/12/2016)
• Gethin Melbourne Christopher Raymond (22/12/1942-18/06/2014)
• James Smith (20/10/1932-03/05/2018)
• Thomas Smith (15/05/1928-03/02/2009)

Powys

• Gwendoline Maud Ford (18/06/1923-02/06/2002)
• William Henry Harding (29/08/1923-12/09/2003)
• Margaret Ann Jenkins (unknown-04/01/2000)
• Edgar Schattschneider (15/09/1925-26/07/2009)
• Iris Mary Woodfine (18/09/1920-05/08/2002)

Rhondda Cynon Taf

• Doris Morgan (07/01/1911-22/12/2008)
• Gertrude Liesbeth Margarete (unknown-26/01/1995)
• Carole Anne Jones (03/10/1943-13/03/2018)
• Jennifer Margaret Jane Jones (unknown-14/12/1999)
• Lazar Milinovic (27/03/1925-11/07/2007)
• William Morris (12/08/1921-0901/2002)

Swansea

• Tedor Joseph Kuzaj (unknown-10/12/1995)
• Patrick Llewellyn (unknown-05/12/2000)
• Michael Nolan (07/03/1945-20/09/2005)
• Iwan Romaniw (19/01/1920-10/07/2006)
• John Oswald Walsh (unknown-09/12/1994)
• Thomas Patrick Brazil (29/07/1916-26/11/1997)

Torfaen

• Frederick Macey (11/05/1920-02/06/2009)

Vale of Glamorgan

• Patrickson Anthony (03/05/1935-31/12/2006)
• Raymond Davies (18/06/1941-21/06/2011)
• James Edwards (04/03/1923-14/03/2007)
• Nellie Mary Phillips (11/02/1907-15/03/1997)
• Peter Ronald Staples (09/06/1933-19/04/2012)

Wrexham

• Michal Rad (10/10/1924-02/01/1996)
• Frances Kathleen Rowley (06/10/1914-16/04/2003)

Below are the names of people were born in Wales but have left estates when they may have died elsewhere

• William Chappell (06/12/1918-19/02/2005)
• Thomas Condon (31/01/1923-11/03/2003)
• Brian Davies (10/10/1919-02/01/2000)
• Idris Edward Davies (21/03/1913-18/04/2005)
• William Eley (20/09/1924-24/08/2008)
• Robert Griffiths (08/11/1945-15/01/2020)
• Frank Jones (03/10/1914-09/07/2003)
• Ivor Jones (14/12/1936-19/12/1994)
• Leslie Jones (23/11/1915-29/06/1998)
• Owen Jones (30/09/1929-12/11/2001)
• Terence Alwyn Jones (27/01/1931-10/12/2021)
• William John Jones (12/01/1923-15/09/2007)
• John Kenneth King (05/06/1939-06/09/2000)
• Albert John Llewellyn (29/11/1921-21/11/1999)
• Gwladys Eunice Mansell (10/09/1903-05/07/2003)
• Ian McIntyre (26/04/1942-20/12/1999)
• Doris Morgan (07/01/1911-22/12/2008)
• Gwenice Osbourne (25/05/1920-13/01/1997)
• Frances Kathleen Rowley (06/10/1914-16/04/2003)
• Leslie Smith (23/05/1930-10/02/2006)
• Glyndwr Thomas (17/12/1912-20/03/2000)
• William Vaughan 11/11/1932 -13/08/2009
• Dewi Williams (23/02/1937-03/11/2019)