A list of Edinburgh surnames could be worth an absolute fortune in unclaimed estates.
Below is the list of surnames of people in Edinburgh who have left behind wealthy estates with no family members to claim them.
If your second name is Sutherland, you might be entitled to inherit an eye-watering £370,720.67, for example.
Other surnames recently added to the list of unclaimed estates in 2020 include Gourlay and Duncan.
How can I collect an unclaimed estate?
Normally, when a person dies their assets revert to a named person but sometimes relatives cannot be traced.
When this happens, the estate is held for 30 years before being transferred to the Treasury.
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.
Who is entitled to collect an unclaimed estate?
If a person dies without leaving a will the following people are entitled to claim 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
- Uncles and aunts or their children (first cousins or their descendants)
Here is the list of names
GOURLAY £2,742.74
DUNCAN £436.26
GAUGHAN £2,619.06
SIMPSON £510.89
WILLIAMSON £599.54
SHIELDS £6,097.42
TURNBULL £228.58
LAU £77,728.07
RHIND £664.38
MARTIN £5,093.56
BORTHWICK £21,017.90
GUTHRIE £2,469.50
BARKER £67,430.49
CARLIN £97,901.74
DAS GUPTA £3,370.51
WILLIAMS £14,331.92
SUTHERLAND £370,720.67
MURPHY £8,332.67
SINTON £2,085.79
BROWN £26,901.77
MCPHERSON £140,579.25
KARABINA £1,041.39
STODDART £6,392.10
GIBB £2,913.41
BENYAHIA £5,523.47
KAYE £14,811.88
SIMPSON £601.21
MCMANUS £1,441.39
MCCORMACK £1,569.20
HUNNIBALL £248.29
PAPE £1,896.60
WHITE £436.76
WILKINSON £2,819.65
WILLIS £11,446.48
FLYN £7,449.74
LAMONT £3,881.39
WALSH £31,910.96
HAMILTON £4,621.05
CAMPBELL £1,583.79
MCGORMAN £361.11
JONES £1,255.64
BROOKS £17,979.94
KILCULLEN £11,156.10
JOHNSTONE £10,894.48
MORRISON £245.86
TAYLOR £2,493.08
WHITE £3,202.06
CONNACHAN £4,776.50
MALONE-PHILBAN £2,171.79
LINDSAY £5,948.54
GLYNN £13,338.39
STRONACH £1,512.23
STEWART£7,960.40
SWEENEY £63.66
DAVIDSON £245.85
BROWN £3,960.59
MCGINTY £118.53
DOWNIE £886.12
TAIT £1,818.91
HIGGINS £4,788.92
MCGURK £7,117.18
HICKMAN £5,682.12
MCGHEE £3,094.09
RAUBE £3,146.96
