Treasury list reveals the one unclaimed estate in Warrington

A list released by The Treasury and updated daily has revealed one unclaimed estate in the town that has been passed to the Crown.

Unclaimed estates are passed to the crown when a person dies without leaving a will and there appears to be no direct family members to pass the estate to.

When this happens, it becomes ownerless property and becomes the possession of the Treasure or ‘Bona Vacantia’.

However, if you are related to the deceased, you may be entitled to a share of their property.

The list is updated every working day and newly advertised estates appear at the top of the list – this is public information.

Any estates where the Bona Vacantia division (BVD) no longer has an interest, for example, when a claim to an estate has been admitted, it will be removed daily from the list. Estates where the 30-year time limit from the date of death has expired are also removed.

Only one unclaimed estate in Warrington exists currently on the Treasury’s list.

The name of the resident who was born and died in Warrington is Stephen George Baxter. He was unmarried and died in June 2005.

Here is a list of the following relations who could be entitled to the estate in order below:

1. Husband, wife or civil partner
2. Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and so on
3. Mother or father
4. Brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews)
5. 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
6. Grandparents
7. Uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants)
8. 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

To view the information in full visit gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/unclaimed-estates-list#full-publication-update-history