There are over 400 estates in Surrey that are just waiting to be claimed.

It’s a little-known secret that the details of thousands of unclaimed estates are available online – and you could make a claim to one of them if you’ve got the right surname.

The details are on a spreadsheet that can be accessed by anyone.

The Government is currently taking care of the estates because the deceased passed away without making a will or with no next of kin.

There are currently 434 unclaimed estates Surrey.

Several of the estates have been listed by the Government for decades, and will revert to the Crown permanently if they remain unidentified.

According to Finders International – a specialist probate genealogist team – family members and heirs have just 12 years to claim an estate once it has been reported unclaimed to the Crown.

Any individual can check the Central Probate Registry to see if any of their next of kin are on the unclaimed list.

If you think that you might be the rightful heir to one of the estates listed you can find out how to make a claim for that estate here.

The list has seen a sharp increase in numbers over the past few years because Government cuts mean there is no search for a will before an unclaimed estate is added to the list.

The names Surrey are:

Anderson

Arrow

Austin

Baxter

Bailey

Bell

Belton

Bernard

Blackmore

Blair

Blake

Boidin

Bowden

Boyce

Boyle

Branch

Brierly

Brent

Brown

Browning

Buck

Bruce

Bush

Burke

Campbell

Carr

Carter

Charnock

Clarke

Cooley

Christian

Chowdhur

Clinton

Churchill

Condon

Cox

Czernyszenko

Daniels

Davis

Delrome

Djorich

Dickson

Dixon

Dirick

Dolan

Duffy

Duggan

Durrani

Edwards

Elie

Elliott

Evans

Eydmann

Fennell

Field

Fisher

Fleming

Forde

Foster

Gebauer

Gibbons

Giles

Godfrey

Gormley

Gorzen

Green

Greenslade

Gubbins

Guppe

Hackett

Hammond

Harris

Harrison

Harvey

Haynes

Head

Higgins

Hilton

Hinds

Holmes

Hounsom

Hughes

Huynh

Ibrahim

Ilmari

Isaacs

Jeanes

John

Jones

Johnson

Johnstone

Keenan

Kelly

Kennedy

Kerr

Keywood

King

Klausner

Kopischke

Kursietis

Lapeikis

Lane

Langford

Lawrence

Lauberts

Laws

Lim

Llyod

Lovett

N’Wogo

Newman

Macdonald

Mann

Marshall

Martin

Meanley

McDonald

McCarte

McClean

McGill

McKay

McKenna

McIntyre

Melnyczyn

Melson

Meredith

Michel

Miller

Mitchell

Mohr

Molloy

Moran

Morris

Morrow

Mullis

McKenzie

Newman

Nerets

O’Connor

O’Sullivan

Opryszek

Ozolins

Patterson

Patrick

Parker

Pearce

Peck

Peterson

Phillips

Pope

Potter

Powell

Power

Pugsley

Pullen

Pratt

Raganatt

Rankin

Richbell

Riley

Rialli

Robertson

Roe

Rogers

Rogowski

Rowell

Russell

Ryan

Sanders

Sanderson

Sawyer

Shepherd

Sinclair

Singh

Simmonds

Simmons

Snelling

Sperling

Spiers

Spencer

Smith

Smyth

Stevens

Stirling

Stone

Storey

Strudwick

Surgery

Summer

Tanner

Terry

Tasker

Townsend

Tarrant

Thomsett

Turner

Turney

Vabalas

Voller

Von Webb

Wakefield

Walton

Walker

Walsh

Wells

Weston

White

Wicks

Williams

Wilcox

Wood

Wright

This article has been first published in getsurrey