Could you be a secret millionaire as 101 unclaimed West Sussex estates are up for grabs

Records released by the Treasury have shown there are 101 unclaimed assets connected to West Sussex – with some potentially worth a lot of money. When someone dies with no will or no known family, their property passes to the Crown as ownerless property. This is called Bona Vacantia. This can be any sort of property, including money, personal possessions and buildings, and can range from a small value to millions. The latest release by the Treasury solicitor reveals there are 101 unclaimed assets connected to the county, although the details of the value of the property have not been released. People can be entitled to the property if you can show proof of being a relative. If someone dies without leaving a valid or effective will the following are entitled to the estate: - husband, wife or civil partner - children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on - mother or father - brothers or sisters who share both the same mother and father, or their children (nieces and nephews) - half brothers or sisters or their children (nieces and nephews of the half blood or their children) grandparents - uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants) - half uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins of the half blood or their children) If you find a name on this list and think you could be related you could be entitled to some money. To register a claim for the property, send a family tree to the Bona Vacantia Division of the Government Legal Department. This must show how you are related to the person who has died, and include the dates of birth, marriage and death of all those on the family tree. If it appears you are entitled to claim the property, then you may be asked to prove your relation through birth certificates etc. Here is a list of the people who have died and their date of birth who have connections to West Sussex If you recognise their name then you could be entitled to claim their property. Chichester: Dorothy Rita Adie - 13/03/1924 Ronald Harry Armitage - 26/03/1918 Irene Barta - 04/09/1903 Mary Raphaela Branford - 14/02/1920 Margaret Rose Brown - 08/11/1930 Stephen David Brown - 14/12/1962 Thomas Burke - 28/08/1931 Alice Dorothy Cockerill - 27/09/1903 Eleanor Davies - 15/06/1905 Bruno Gorsulowski - (D.O.B. unknown) Marion Guilfoyle - 04/01/1904 Vivian Jarvis - 01/04/1942 Florence Lawrence - 24/05/1910 Hilda Elizabeth Mackie - (D.O.B. unknown) Gwladys Eunice Mansell - 10/09/1903 George William Robertson Copland Samuel - (D.O.B unknown) Georgina Margaret Scott - 31/12/1932 James Smith - 28/04/1948 Florence Annie Taylor - 28/04/1912 Crawley: Terence Mary Kavanagh - (D.O.B. unknown) Zbigniew Richard Kowal - 12/10/1956 Hilda Emily Webb - (D.O.B. unknown) David Harold West - 10/01/1961 Doris Young - 20/06/1925 Haywards Heath: Delores De Villiers - 12/10/1914 Ronald Dougal - 15/10/1944 Albert John Holland - 20/03/1929 Michael James Bono King - 03/12/1950 George Frederick Mace - 15/02/1905 Gordon Douglas Manning - 15/09/1919 Gwendoline Maxwell - 10/03/1899 Agnes Parsons - (D.O.B. unknown) Oswald Warry - 04/12/1909 Horsham: Owen Mejias Gordon - 27/05/1937 Mary Hall - 20/03/1940 Margaret Henderson - (D.O.B. unknown) Alice May Jones - 27/08/1912 Stuart Knight - 29/11/1964 Luis Belardo Nunes Silvano - 31/12/1964 Anthony Vernon - 07/03/1920 Midhurst: John Leonard Smith - 10/10/1935 Worthing: Marie Bangerter - 05/04/1915 Constance Beard - 05/03/1916 Cecily Joyce Black - 18/04/1905 Gertroude Blake - 06/06/1924 Margaret Breese - 31/10/1903 Robert Chapman - 23/04/1907 Roland Cole - 13/01/1943 David Leslie Cooke - 08/04/1945 Irene Doris Coombes - 13/02/1902 William John Cousins - 05/04/1946 John Davis - 10/08/1943 Velma Marjorie Dunne - (D.O.B. unknown) Martha Evans - 01/05/1900 Alice Everard - 02/04/1899 Margaret May Finnis - 12/12/1912 Lydia Forbes-Thomson - 29/08/1920 Janet Mary Foulds - 02/11/1945 Clifford Hugh Garratt - 29/12/1898 Elizabeth Gibbs - 12/06/1923 Andrew Peter Gibson - 20/05/1951 Marie Constance Gilbert - 24/08/1917 Lesley Gill - 19/11/1954 Annie Gordon - (D.O.B. unknown) Isobel Marie Halstead - (D.O.B. unknown) John Anthony Harris - 17/12/1924 Julie Henderson - 30/07/1938 Frederick John Hogg - 22/11/1912 George Howett - 03/11/1930 Ethel Hunt - 01/11/1907 Bridget James - 24/07/1924 Angela Kaye - 12/01/1901 Agnes Knight - 26/02/1905 Winifried G. Lacey - 25/05/1905 William Edward Lang - (D.O.B. unknown) Alice Lesley - 08/02/1907 Ellen Elizabeth Mary Lindsay - 08/10/1916 Margaret Felicity Lynfield - 30/01/1930 Mabel Lily Meadows - 21/03/1908 Albert Victor Myall - 05/03/1928 Enid Claire Pardo - 21/06/1916 Kathleen Jessie Peacock - 18/07/1899 Pamela Pelham-Cook - 02/06/1918 Eileen Mary Rhodes - 29/12/1913 Alfonse Sabuk - 14/07/1922 Doris Florence Sartain - 05/06/1919 Raymond Scott - 19/07/1938 Elizabeth Sharp - 12/06/1905 Margaret Ellen Slater - (D.O.B. unknown) Joseph Smith - 14/05/1915 Thomas Bryan Smith - 24/08/1939 Michael Angus Alistair Stark - 15/10/1942 Jane Lilian Taylor - 17/11/1919 Arthur George Thomas - (D.O.B. unknown) Kathleen Mary Ulph - 23/03/1919 Kathleen Walter - 12/06/1916 Violet Gladys Ward - 26/05/1886 Henrietta Jane Wheatland - 18/12/1914 Audrey May Williams - 21/01/1923 Desmond Edgar Williams - 13/09/1933 Harold Williams - 05/01/1943