0:00:02 > 0:00:07Heir hunters spend their lives tracking down families of people who've died without leaving a will.
0:00:07 > 0:00:10They hand over thousands of pounds to long lost relatives
0:00:10 > 0:00:13who had no idea they were in line for a windfall.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15Could they be knocking at your door?
0:00:28 > 0:00:30On today's programme,
0:00:30 > 0:00:34the heir hunters lose time making wrong decisions.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39Sounds like we've got the completely wrong family here, Mrs Ellacot.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41And a new lead means reopening
0:00:41 > 0:00:44one of their most perplexing cases to date.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49At some point, somebody said...
0:00:49 > 0:00:51"but Peter's mum,
0:00:51 > 0:00:53"she had two other children."
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Plus a list of unclaimed estates worth nearly £300,000.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Do you know anyone on it?
0:01:00 > 0:01:04Could thousands of pounds be coming your way?
0:01:09 > 0:01:13Every year, over 300,000 people die without leaving a will.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19When no family is found, their money goes to the government.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22That's when the heir-hunting companies step in.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25They race against each other to be the first
0:01:25 > 0:01:29to track down any long-lost relatives entitled to inherit.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32Fraser And Fraser is one of the oldest firms
0:01:32 > 0:01:33of heir hunters in Britain.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35Nicki is the half-sister...
0:01:35 > 0:01:39In its 30-year history, the company has tracked down
0:01:39 > 0:01:44over 50,000 heirs, entitled to a whopping sum of over £100 million.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53It's 7am, Thursday, in central London.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58Thursday is the most crucial day for the heir hunters
0:01:58 > 0:02:02as it's when the government releases its weekly list of those
0:02:02 > 0:02:04who've died with no known heirs.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08Today's list has just gone live on the government website.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Experienced heir hunter David Pacifico is case manager today,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15overseen by head honcho Neil Fraser.
0:02:17 > 0:02:21David's first task is to select the case the team will investigate.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26I'm looking at the estate of Raymond Alfred Heath,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28who died in Peacehaven, in '07.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31We think there's probably a property involved.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34We could be talking about an estate of about £200,000,
0:02:34 > 0:02:36which is good news.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41The potential £200,000 value of Raymond Heath's property
0:02:41 > 0:02:42makes this case worth looking at.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46David looks up Raymond Heath in the electoral roll
0:02:46 > 0:02:48and finds his last two addresses.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52For the last five years he was in a nursing home.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Prior to that there's a property which is a detached bungalow,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58has been lying empty for the last five years.
0:03:00 > 0:03:04Raymond Heath lived in Peacehaven on the southeast coast.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07He'd been married to his wife Terri for 42 years.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Raymond was a popular member of the community
0:03:10 > 0:03:12and renowned for his skill on the snooker table.
0:03:16 > 0:03:17Ray was an amazing player.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21I called him the 80-year-old champion of the world when we played
0:03:21 > 0:03:22because he was really that good.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26Six years before he died, he developed dementia
0:03:26 > 0:03:31and went into the Bramber Care Home in Peacehaven.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35Terri stayed in their bungalow but three years later developed cancer.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38The couple didn't have any children
0:03:38 > 0:03:43and in their time of need turned to Terri's nephew Kevin for help.
0:03:43 > 0:03:48When my aunt started to become unwell I spent a lot of time with my aunt.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51I was down there most weekends
0:03:51 > 0:03:55and she was dependent upon me for financial help,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59in the way you really would be if you had a son.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02When Terri died, she hadn't left a will.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06By law, her husband automatically inherited the bungalow.
0:04:06 > 0:04:11When Raymond died three years later, the couple's friend Francis Harding
0:04:11 > 0:04:14thought it was clear who would be entitled to the estate.
0:04:14 > 0:04:19A good few years ago when Ray first started to be ill,
0:04:19 > 0:04:22he had said to Terri...
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Terri, I haven't got a relative left in the world.
0:04:26 > 0:04:31Now, you do as you want with the bungalow.
0:04:31 > 0:04:37She said to me that she wanted to leave the bungalow
0:04:37 > 0:04:42to her nephew, Kevin Cleary.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45But Raymond hadn't left a will either.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49And because Kevin wasn't his blood relative,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52by law, he was entitled to nothing.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Nobody thought Raymond had any family
0:04:55 > 0:04:57so his estate was taken by the Treasury
0:04:57 > 0:05:01and his details were put on the government's website.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04Now it's up to the team at Fraser And Fraser
0:05:04 > 0:05:06to find out whether Raymond Heath does have
0:05:06 > 0:05:11some living blood relatives entitled to the £200,000 estate.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16To earn their commission on this case,
0:05:16 > 0:05:19they need to piece together his family tree as quickly as possible,
0:05:19 > 0:05:22working out generation by generation
0:05:22 > 0:05:26who his relatives are and if any are still alive.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29There will be other heir-hunting companies working on this case
0:05:29 > 0:05:32and it's often the first heir hunter to crack the case
0:05:32 > 0:05:34that wins the business of helping the heir
0:05:34 > 0:05:36put in their claim to the Treasury.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42The researchers start by looking up Raymond Heath
0:05:42 > 0:05:45on the Frasers' database of national birth records.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Straight away, they find something of interest.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51His mother is listed as Lilian Heath
0:05:51 > 0:05:54but there's no father mentioned.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59We now know the deceased was born on 14th June 1917 and born in Pancras.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Mother's maiden name, Heath.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04He could be illegitimate, possibility he may not be.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07With no father's blood line to trace,
0:06:07 > 0:06:11the likelihood of the heir hunters finding any relatives
0:06:11 > 0:06:12has already halved.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15It's incredibly hard to get on to illegitimate families.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18We don't have one vital parent's marriage. We can't get ages.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24So the team are pinning all their hopes on Lilian Heath.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28They look up birth records for any Lilian Heaths
0:06:28 > 0:06:31born at the turn of the century, and find dozens.
0:06:32 > 0:06:36But the team don't know which Lilian Heath is the right one.
0:06:36 > 0:06:40They double-check all the documents they have for Raymond
0:06:40 > 0:06:42and one of them contains a clue.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46We picked up the marriage of the deceased...
0:06:46 > 0:06:51which gave us an informant. It gave us two initials for an informant.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56The witness at Raymond and Terri's wedding was an LR Heath.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59There's only one Lilian Heath with a middle name beginning with R
0:06:59 > 0:07:03and that's Lilian Rose Heath, from Great Yarmouth.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06The team decide she must be Raymond's mother.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12Lilian's place of birth gives the team another clue.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15The heir hunters know that families usually stay
0:07:15 > 0:07:18near the area where they were born, so according to this rule,
0:07:18 > 0:07:23Lilian's relatives and Raymond's heirs should be near Great Yarmouth,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25also known simply as Yarmouth.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29The heir hunters' HQ is 140 miles away in the heart of London.
0:07:29 > 0:07:34But Frasers employ a fleet of travelling heir hunters
0:07:34 > 0:07:38who spend their Thursdays poised for action, in the driving seat...
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Thanks a lot, mate.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43..ready to go wherever the hunt takes them.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Their aim is to get to any heirs before rival companies
0:07:48 > 0:07:52and sign them up, earning Frasers a slice of the inheritance pie.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58David wonders if they should send a travelling heir hunter to Yarmouth, Norfolk,
0:07:58 > 0:08:03so they can be on hand to sign up any heirs the team may find.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06The next question, if he's coming out up in Norfolk,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09do we want someone to start... have we got anybody to...
0:08:09 > 0:08:11OK. Paul Matthews. But...
0:08:11 > 0:08:14- Let's get up to date. - ..we haven't got anyone.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16But not one of Frasers travelling heir hunters
0:08:16 > 0:08:18is anywhere near Norfolk.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21With only one name on the tree so far,
0:08:21 > 0:08:24this could be a huge waste of Fraser's resources.
0:08:26 > 0:08:31- It'll take Paul eight hours to get there.- OK.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34Although eight hours might be a slight exaggeration,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36the callout to Yarmouth, Norfolk is put on hold.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43The team need to push on with the office based research.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47And they have access to a fantastic resource.
0:08:47 > 0:08:52Every ten years since the year 1801, the British Government
0:08:52 > 0:08:56has taken a national population survey called the Census.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Each census lists the names
0:08:57 > 0:09:01of all the people living at every address in Britain at that time.
0:09:01 > 0:09:05They are only released 100 years after they were taken,
0:09:05 > 0:09:09so the latest census the Frasers' team have is from 1901.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14Research director Gareth Langford looks up Lilian Rose Heath
0:09:14 > 0:09:17in this census and he hits a goldmine.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20It lists six of Lilian's siblings, living at the same address.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27Children... Frederick William, Violet E and Daisy...
0:09:27 > 0:09:30looks like May, an Ivy and an Olive.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34It's great news for the team.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37In one fell swoop, the census has revealed the names
0:09:37 > 0:09:40of all of Raymond Heath's aunts and uncles.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43With no father known, these people are the key
0:09:43 > 0:09:47to finding heirs to Raymond Heath's £200,000 estate.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49But Frasers are a way off yet.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52All of Raymond's aunts and uncles would have died,
0:09:52 > 0:09:57so it is their children and grandchildren the team need to find.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Gareth takes up the challenge.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04We're obviously gonna have to look for marriages for these guys.
0:10:04 > 0:10:08Hopefully we'll be able to find some of those and get it up to date.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13The team soon find a marriage record for Frederick Heath and Ethel Cubit
0:10:13 > 0:10:19Think they've had, let's see... one, two, three, four, five kids.
0:10:19 > 0:10:24So Raymond Heath's uncle Frederick married Ethel and had five children.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Elsie, Jack, Gertrude, Ethel and Frederick.
0:10:28 > 0:10:32All of these children would be cousins of Raymond Heath.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Gareth researches the marriages of these cousins and finds out
0:10:36 > 0:10:39that Ethel Heath married a man also called Frederick.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42But this one has the unusual surname of Ellacot,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45making their offspring fairly easy to find.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49I'm just doing an issue search of Ethel's marriage
0:10:49 > 0:10:54to see if they have any children. I think I've got my first child here.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00Where are you? There we go. That's Derek Ellacot.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04That's a bit of a result. Excellent.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Gareth identifies Ethel and Frederick Ellacot's son Derek,
0:11:07 > 0:11:11who would be Raymond Heath's cousin once removed.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15He also works out that Derek had a son called Russell
0:11:15 > 0:11:20and he thinks he's just found Russell's number in the phone book.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Gareth hands the information to case manager David Pacifico.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Derek, I've got an old address for you. That's his son.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30- Derek's son?- Yeah.
0:11:32 > 0:11:34David puts in a call.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36PHONE RINGS
0:11:36 > 0:11:38But is he phoning the right Russell Ellacot?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Oh, hello. Is there a Mr Ellacot there, please?
0:11:42 > 0:11:47We're trying to trace descendants of an Ethel Ellacot, formerly Heath.
0:11:47 > 0:11:52Well, it sounds like we've got completely the wrong family here, I'm afraid, Mrs Ellacot.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55The phone number Gareth found is for a different Mr Ellacot,
0:11:55 > 0:11:57who has nothing to do with Raymond Heath.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59It's a blow for the team
0:11:59 > 0:12:03and has lost them vital time in the race to find Raymond's relatives.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07All right. Thank you. Bye bye.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11So they're going to have to continue the hunt
0:12:11 > 0:12:14for the Russell Ellacot related to Raymond Heath.
0:12:14 > 0:12:19That Russell was the son of Dennis, not Derek.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21That's interesting.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Gareth was thinking he could pop out for some sneaky lunch.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26But no such luck.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28It's back to the drawing board.
0:12:30 > 0:12:32The team have had a busy morning.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34That's annoying, isn't it?
0:12:34 > 0:12:36But they're still no closer
0:12:36 > 0:12:41to finding any heirs to Raymond Heath's £200,000 estate.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45Coming up, will the heir hunters' luck change?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Is your mother still alive?
0:12:47 > 0:12:51And the tragic story of a secret that tore a family apart.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56When Peter left, my nan was devastated. Absolutely devastated.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04There are cases that the professional heir hunters
0:13:04 > 0:13:05find impossible to solve.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09Sometimes it takes a member of the public
0:13:09 > 0:13:11to provide a crucial clue.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Jan Szulc died in 2006, in Coventry,
0:13:15 > 0:13:21aged 87, leaving an unclaimed estate worth £165,000.
0:13:21 > 0:13:22Are you related to Jan?
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Do you know someone who is?
0:13:25 > 0:13:30Anne Elizabeth James died in Lampeter, in 2007, aged 69.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34She left £40,000 which went to the Treasury.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36Are you part of Anne's family?
0:13:36 > 0:13:39Could you claim back her cash?
0:13:39 > 0:13:44Leroy Banton died in East London in 2004, aged 68.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Leroy left an estate worth £29,000.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Could you be entitled to Leroy's money?
0:13:50 > 0:13:53Do you know someone who is?
0:13:53 > 0:13:57If you have any information that could solve any of these cases,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59then take a look at our website...
0:14:04 > 0:14:07..and follow details on what to do next.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17The team at Fraser And Fraser are working
0:14:17 > 0:14:19on the case of Raymond Heath,
0:14:19 > 0:14:23who died without a will, leaving an estate worth an estimated £200,000.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Raymond's friends thought his money would go straight
0:14:26 > 0:14:28to his wife's nephew Kevin,
0:14:28 > 0:14:33but Kevin wasn't a blood relative and so, by law, is not entitled.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Gareth has already tracked down Raymond's aunts and uncles...
0:14:37 > 0:14:40We've got one, two, three, four, five...
0:14:40 > 0:14:43so that's six including Frederick.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45..and begun the search for any cousins
0:14:45 > 0:14:49who might be entitled to the estimated £200,000 estate.
0:14:51 > 0:14:52But so far this morning,
0:14:52 > 0:14:56his research has only led him down a wrong path...
0:14:56 > 0:14:59It sounds like we've got the completely wrong family here, I'm afraid, Mrs Ellacot.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02..and Frasers have yet to find an heir.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04That's annoying, isn't it?
0:15:09 > 0:15:13Gareth now decides to put the Ellacots on hold
0:15:13 > 0:15:15and hopes he'll have more luck
0:15:15 > 0:15:18with another of Raymond Heath's cousins, Jack,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20also a son of Frederick and Ethel.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25He works out that Jack Heath was born
0:15:25 > 0:15:29on the 21st October 1914, in Yarmouth.
0:15:29 > 0:15:33Thinking he might have already died, Gareth looks at the death records.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36He's hoping to find a Jack Heath who died near Yarmouth
0:15:36 > 0:15:39but nothing is easy for the heir hunters today.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Unfortunately for us we've got two there. Two deaths.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Neither in the right area. One's in Manchester. One's in Newport.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47We don't know which is the right one.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52So, although Gareth has found two Jack Heaths with the right birthday,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55neither of them died anywhere near Yarmouth.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Are either of them the Jack Heath the team want?
0:15:58 > 0:16:01But at the moment we're struggling a little bit
0:16:01 > 0:16:02to identify which one it is.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Another clue is needed, and Gareth might have just found one.
0:16:06 > 0:16:12He's come across some information about Jack's sister, Elsie.
0:16:12 > 0:16:18I've just got a...possible match for an Elsie S Heath.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20She's the sister of Jack.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24She's the only one we've found. The only Elsie S and it's in Wales.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Now, bearing in mind that the only two deaths we had for Jack,
0:16:28 > 0:16:30we had in Newport and Manchester.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33This marriage is in Newport
0:16:33 > 0:16:37so it's making that Jack death in Newport look excellent now.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39But I think we need to follow that up...
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- quite urgently.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Now the team think they've found records
0:16:48 > 0:16:51for the right Jack and Elsie Heath, first cousins of Raymond.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56Interestingly, neither is listed as from the Yarmouth area
0:16:56 > 0:16:59but from 150 miles away in Newport, Wales.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Gareth now thinks that Newport might be the target area
0:17:03 > 0:17:07for all of Raymond Heath's heirs, and he could be right.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Minutes later, he finds a record of two of Elsie Heath's sons
0:17:12 > 0:17:14living near Newport.
0:17:15 > 0:17:22I've got potentially two addresses of two heirs on this Heath family
0:17:22 > 0:17:24that we're trying to trace.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27David decides to call Ivor James,
0:17:27 > 0:17:31Elsie Heath's son and Raymond's cousin once removed.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34We're trying to trace a family by the name of Heath
0:17:34 > 0:17:37regarding an unclaimed estate we're looking into
0:17:37 > 0:17:41and I'm hoping you would be the son of an Elsie James, formerly Heath.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45After mistakes earlier in the day, David's even more keen to check
0:17:45 > 0:17:49whether he's got the right Ivor James on the phone.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51We're trying to work out
0:17:51 > 0:17:55if you knew where your mother originally came from
0:17:55 > 0:17:59because I'm hoping she may have been from Norfolk.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02She was from... she was from Great Yarmouth. Right.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06And did she have a brother Jack?
0:18:06 > 0:18:07Right.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13Ivor's answers convinced David that he is a relative of Raymond Heath.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15But there's a surprise in store.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19Is your mother still alive?
0:18:19 > 0:18:20Oh, indeed.
0:18:24 > 0:18:29Well, in that case, we think your mother could well be a beneficiary
0:18:29 > 0:18:33to an estate of somebody that's recently passed away.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36David thought Ivor and his brother were the heirs,
0:18:36 > 0:18:40but as his 97-year-old mother Elsie is still alive,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43it is actually she who will be entitled.
0:18:43 > 0:18:45It is the breakthrough we wanted.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49The person I spoke to, we think, was a cousin once removed
0:18:49 > 0:18:51but he's not entitled, his mother's still alive.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58David arranges for travelling heir hunter Paul Matthews to visit Elsie tomorrow...
0:18:58 > 0:19:04so Frasers can help her put in a claim for her share of the £200,000 estate.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11It's good news. But Gareth is all too aware
0:19:11 > 0:19:14of how much more work they have to do.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17So, we just need to sort out the rest of it.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19David is keen to get things wrapped up.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21I want to get it all on the computer now
0:19:21 > 0:19:25because tomorrow I'm going to Harrowgate for a long weekend.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29Going off tomorrow morning. Back Tuesday.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30It's all right for some.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I haven't had any time off for ages.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37For David Pacifico, the weekend starts here.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41- Night.- Night.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44But for the rest of the heir hunters, there's hard work ahead.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46No heirs have been signed up yet
0:19:46 > 0:19:51and Gareth's still got the Ellacot family members to find.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56Coming up, Raymond Heath's unclaimed estate leads the heir hunters
0:19:56 > 0:19:58to one of their oldest beneficiaries...
0:19:58 > 0:20:02- You're doing very well, I tell you. - I'm doing very well, considering.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05..and one of their youngest.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15In the last series of heir hunters, an appeal to the public
0:20:15 > 0:20:19for help cracking a case the team started six years ago,
0:20:19 > 0:20:22gave Fraser And Fraser an astonishing new lead.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27The case was that of a Simon Alban, who died in February 2001,
0:20:27 > 0:20:33in Peckham, South London, leaving an estate worth £91,000.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Simon Alban was a loner, with no known occupation,
0:20:38 > 0:20:41who rarely spent any time in the house which he owned.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46In 1997, Simon's property caught fire.
0:20:46 > 0:20:50It took a team of firefighters 24 hours to put it out.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Simon was never seen again.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57Four years later, the property was sold and cleared out
0:20:57 > 0:20:59and a grizzly discovery was made.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01A skeleton, presumed to be Simon Alban,
0:21:01 > 0:21:04was hidden amongst the debris.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08Simon had no known relatives and hadn't left a will
0:21:08 > 0:21:12but the sale of his property resulted in a £91,000 estate.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15It was down to the team at Fraser And Fraser
0:21:15 > 0:21:18to find any heirs who might be entitled
0:21:18 > 0:21:20but from the get go,
0:21:20 > 0:21:24case manager Marcus Herbert came up against a brick wall.
0:21:24 > 0:21:30The problem we had with his name was on the death, it's Simon Alban, otherwise Simon Alban-Angrove.
0:21:30 > 0:21:35We tried all variants that we could look at for births in England and Wales.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38We couldn't find anything that would tie up at all.
0:21:42 > 0:21:46Marcus still believed that if only they could crack the case,
0:21:46 > 0:21:48some heirs would exist.
0:21:48 > 0:21:53There had to be an answer out there somewhere.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55There's got to be family of some sort.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58I mean, this is a man, he's born, he had parents.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00Likelihood is he had siblings.
0:22:00 > 0:22:02If he didn't have siblings or surviving parents,
0:22:02 > 0:22:05you're talking about aunts, uncles, cousins.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08There had to be somebody out there or somebody out there at some stage.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12And after the last series was televised,
0:22:12 > 0:22:17it seemed Simon might have some family out there after all.
0:22:17 > 0:22:18When the appeal went out
0:22:18 > 0:22:21we were contacted by somebody called David Angove
0:22:21 > 0:22:26and he claimed that he was a relative of this gentleman.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31At first, Marcus wasn't sure whether this caller was genuine
0:22:31 > 0:22:33because his surname was actually different
0:22:33 > 0:22:35from that of his supposed relative.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39His name was David Angove.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42The deceased was Simon Alban-Angrove.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47Added to this confusion, things got even more complicated.
0:22:47 > 0:22:53They said to us that the gentleman was actually born as Peter Harris.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58And his mother had not been married when she'd had him.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02She'd left him with her sister who'd married a Mr Angove
0:23:02 > 0:23:05and they brought him up as their own child.
0:23:08 > 0:23:09According to David Angove,
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Peter Harris was the illegitimate son of Maya Harris.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17As a tiny baby he was given to Maya's sister Sian,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19who had four children of her own.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23Peter was never officially adopted by Sian but was brought up to believe
0:23:23 > 0:23:27she was his real mother and that Maya was just an auntie.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Marcus tracked down Enid Lumsden,
0:23:29 > 0:23:33daughter of Brian and Peter's cousin once removed.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Growing up, Enid believed that Peter was her uncle.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40He was always in my life as far back as I can remember.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45I was born in 1951 and I remember back to when I was five,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49maybe 1956-ish, that he was always around.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53I never thought of him as my uncle, just my friend.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56He was very "way out",
0:23:56 > 0:23:58very much of the '60s and he'd come up with
0:23:58 > 0:24:01all these weird and wonderful ideas
0:24:01 > 0:24:04that to me were so exciting because I was still a child.
0:24:04 > 0:24:08Enid explained to Marcus how on his 21st birthday
0:24:08 > 0:24:11Peter was told the truth about his parentage.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15There was apparently a family gathering of sorts.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20At that point, Mr Angove, his adoptive father took him to one side
0:24:20 > 0:24:23and said, "Peter, this is your birth certificate,"
0:24:23 > 0:24:25showing him the birth certificate,
0:24:25 > 0:24:28showing that he was not his father,
0:24:28 > 0:24:31the woman he believed to be his mother wasn't his mother,
0:24:31 > 0:24:33were in fact his aunt and uncle.
0:24:35 > 0:24:39I can only imagine my grandfather being my grandfather,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43an ex-army man, everything was black and white.
0:24:43 > 0:24:44Everything was matter of fact.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Here you are, boy. Here's your birth certificate.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50I can just see him doing that.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54At that point, Peter left the family home.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58It really affected him badly.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00He was cross. He was angry. He was upset.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03He had a right to know when he was younger that he was adopted
0:25:03 > 0:25:07and he wasn't, and I can understand him running away.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Basically, that's what he did.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13Peter disappeared and broke all contact
0:25:13 > 0:25:15with the people he had for 21 years believed to be
0:25:15 > 0:25:18his mother, father, brothers and sisters.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22It was not the outcome that anyone had wanted...or expected.
0:25:22 > 0:25:27When Peter left, my nan was devastated. Absolutely devastated.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32She couldn't understand why he would do it, why he made no contact.
0:25:32 > 0:25:3425 years after he had gone,
0:25:34 > 0:25:38my nan still had all his mail in a suitcase.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40She kept it because he might come back.
0:25:40 > 0:25:45It was a whole big brown suitcase full of mail.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Peter clearly didn't put them out of his mind either.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Nine years after he left home, he visited Enid.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56He came to where I was working with a bouquet of flowers
0:25:56 > 0:25:59because he'd remembered it was my birthday
0:25:59 > 0:26:02and he gave me these flowers and I never saw him again.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07With the background information filled in,
0:26:07 > 0:26:12Marcus now had to work out who of Peter Harris' new-found relatives
0:26:12 > 0:26:15were entitled to claim his £91,000 estate.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18It was something of a conundrum.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Because he wasn't officially adopted by the Angoves,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24it would mean the entire Harris family,
0:26:24 > 0:26:29which would include the Angove family or descendents thereof,
0:26:29 > 0:26:31would be entitled, but not as close kin -
0:26:31 > 0:26:35for instance, siblings, nephews, nieces, that kind of thing -
0:26:35 > 0:26:37but as cousins, cousins once removed.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43If Peter Harris had been officially adopted by his aunt Sian,
0:26:43 > 0:26:46then by law, her children would be his brothers and sisters
0:26:46 > 0:26:48and legally entitled to all of his estate.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52But as Peter was never formerly adopted,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55he is legally still the son of Maya.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59Sian's children are his cousins and still could be entitled
0:26:59 > 0:27:05but they would have to share the estate with Peter's other cousins.
0:27:05 > 0:27:09It took some time for Marcus to work out who was entitled to what.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12Then he received news that was to change everything.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14At some point,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17somebody said...
0:27:17 > 0:27:19but Peter's mum,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21she had two other children.
0:27:21 > 0:27:27Coming up, will Marcus be able to track down Peter Harris' long lost sisters?
0:27:39 > 0:27:42It's day two on the case of Raymond Heath
0:27:42 > 0:27:44who died without leaving a will.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Yesterday, the team tracked down Raymond's first cousin,
0:27:54 > 0:27:5697-year-old Elsie Heath.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58An appointment was made
0:27:58 > 0:28:01for travelling heir hunter Paul Matthews to visit.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04The team suspected there were more heirs to the estate
0:28:04 > 0:28:07but Gareth had no luck tracking down the Ellacotts.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Case manager David Pacifico left for a long weekend, and today
0:28:14 > 0:28:18it's up to research director Gareth Langford to finish things off.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23Gareth has come in to work this morning
0:28:23 > 0:28:26determined to find the elusive Russell Ellacott.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29He disappeared off the electoral roll in 2005
0:28:29 > 0:28:32and he's either moved from the address or passed away.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36He looks in the death records and quickly realises
0:28:36 > 0:28:39why he couldn't get hold of him yesterday.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Yep. He's died.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44Died in 2005.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49He's very young. He was only born in 1960.
0:28:49 > 0:28:55Now, if he has kids, obviously they'll be entitled.
0:28:55 > 0:28:59Gareth looks up birth records and he's in luck.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Russell has a daughter, Jessica,
0:29:01 > 0:29:04who lives in Hastings with her mother Dawn.
0:29:04 > 0:29:10She's only actually...I think, 17 years old...
0:29:10 > 0:29:11so she's a minor,
0:29:11 > 0:29:17in which case we need to speak to her mother in this case.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20She's a very distant relative of Raymond Heath
0:29:20 > 0:29:22but an heir, nonetheless.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Top of my head, she's cousin three times removed.
0:29:25 > 0:29:30It's quite unusual to get someone that distant on these cases,
0:29:30 > 0:29:34especially someone, I mean, Russell was born in 1960, so you know,
0:29:36 > 0:29:38we'd expect to be speaking to him.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Unfortunately, he passed away in 2005, so his daughter's an heir.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47Unfortunately, she's ex-directory so the team can't call her up.
0:29:47 > 0:29:50Marcus speaks to travelling heir hunter Bob Barrett
0:29:50 > 0:29:54and gives him the job of visiting Jessica in Hastings.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Hello, Bob.
0:29:56 > 0:29:57It's me. Hello, mate.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59You got your trunks with you?
0:29:59 > 0:30:04Shades on, Bob sets off for his seaside trip.
0:30:04 > 0:30:09Meanwhile, travelling heir hunter Paul Matthews has just arrived
0:30:09 > 0:30:11at heir Elsie James' house.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15Elsie is the only remaining child of Raymond Heath's uncle Frederick,
0:30:15 > 0:30:18making her the last of Raymond's first cousins.
0:30:20 > 0:30:21My mum. This is Elsie.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24- Pleased to meet you, mum! - This is Paul.
0:30:24 > 0:30:28- Are you all right?- I'm fine, yeah. - You're doing very well, I tell you.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31I'm doing very well, considering.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34Very well. Absolutely. Where can I sit?
0:30:34 > 0:30:39Aged 97, Elsie is accompanied by her two sons, Ivor and Kenneth.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42I'll ask your mum a few questions about herself,
0:30:42 > 0:30:43prove she's the right person
0:30:43 > 0:30:46and we're going to take her back down memory lane
0:30:46 > 0:30:48to ask what you know, or don't know.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52Elsie reveals some astonishing family history.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55When she was a child, her mother Ethel died.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Died from a fever she had.
0:30:58 > 0:31:06- And she left the five of us. - Right. Yeah. I know she died young.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Her father, Frederick, remarried
0:31:08 > 0:31:11but his new wife didn't want his children.
0:31:11 > 0:31:17Elsie saw a job advertised for a farmhand and decided to go for it.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21She was only ten but still has memories of the day she arrived...
0:31:21 > 0:31:22alone and on foot,
0:31:22 > 0:31:25not knowing whether the farmer's wife would let her in.
0:31:53 > 0:31:5580 years later,
0:31:55 > 0:31:59the heir hunters have pieced back together Elsie's family tree.
0:31:59 > 0:32:03Now, Paul asks Elsie to sign a contract,
0:32:03 > 0:32:05so they can help her put in a claim
0:32:05 > 0:32:10for her share of Raymond Heath's £200,000 estate.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12- All the very best.- And you. - Nice meeting you, Mum!
0:32:12 > 0:32:15Now you behave yourself. You have a smashing home.
0:32:15 > 0:32:17A smashing family.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19I'm coming back here to live.
0:32:19 > 0:32:21All the best, Ken. Nice meeting you.
0:32:21 > 0:32:26With a signed contract in his hand, Paul leaves a happy man.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34Over in Hastings, Paul's counterpart Bob has arrived at the home
0:32:34 > 0:32:38of Raymond Heath's second heir, 17 year old Jessica Ellacott.
0:32:38 > 0:32:39Luckily for Bob,
0:32:39 > 0:32:44both Jessica and her mother Dawn are at home and he is welcomed in.
0:32:44 > 0:32:50- So, you're Miss Ellacott. E-L-L-A-C-O-T-T?- Yep.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54Bob explains how Jessica is related to Raymond Heath.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58We've actually researched back to your great-great-great grandfather
0:32:58 > 0:33:00- here to get to you.- Have you?
0:33:00 > 0:33:04Yes. So...been lots of research.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06That is lots of research, isn't it?
0:33:06 > 0:33:09Jessica is Raymond's cousin three times removed.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13Although she never met Raymond, nor knew of his existence,
0:33:13 > 0:33:17she is entitled to a share of his £200,000 estate.
0:33:17 > 0:33:21Bob leaves the paperwork for Jessica and her mother to look over.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Well, that's it then.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Thanks very much for letting me do my bit. I hope you use us.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Thank you very much for a lovely surprise.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31I hope it ends up being worthwhile for you
0:33:31 > 0:33:33and you get a nice big fat cheque.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35- Thanks ever so much.- Thank you.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37- Bye bye.- OK. Bye bye.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41It's close of play on the case of Raymond Heath.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44It's been a successful investigation for the team
0:33:44 > 0:33:48and a clear lesson on the importance of writing a will.
0:33:48 > 0:33:52Raymond Heath wanted his wife's nephew Kevin to inherit his fortune
0:33:52 > 0:33:54but without a legal document,
0:33:54 > 0:33:57he wasn't entitled, and heirs were found that Raymond didn't even know.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02They'll receive money from someone they know nothing about,
0:34:02 > 0:34:06whereas Kevin, who's cared for Raymond in his later years,
0:34:06 > 0:34:08he's not actually gonna receive anything.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11It's why it's so important for people to leave wills.
0:34:22 > 0:34:23Last year, an appeal for help
0:34:23 > 0:34:26with a case that had remained unsolved for six years
0:34:26 > 0:34:30gave Fraser And Fraser an astonishing new lead.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34A viewer claimed that the deceased, Simon Alban,
0:34:34 > 0:34:36was in fact born with the name Peter Harris
0:34:36 > 0:34:39and had been unofficially adopted by his own mother's sister.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45Marcus thought he'd found the heirs to the £91,000 estate,
0:34:45 > 0:34:48and that they were Peter Harris' cousins,
0:34:48 > 0:34:53but then he got some more news which changed the family tree altogether.
0:34:53 > 0:34:58At some point, somebody said...
0:34:58 > 0:35:00"but Peter's mum,
0:35:00 > 0:35:03"she had two other children."
0:35:03 > 0:35:07That person was 79-year-old Enid Johnson, who was the daughter
0:35:07 > 0:35:12of another sister of Maya and Sian and Peter Harris' cousin.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16Well, I was able to furnish Fraser And Fraser
0:35:16 > 0:35:21with the fact that the late Peter had two half-sisters.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27Mary and Marilyn, known as little ones as Cherry and Minty.
0:35:28 > 0:35:32Enid revealed that several years after having Peter,
0:35:32 > 0:35:35his mother Maya had had two more children,
0:35:35 > 0:35:37Mary and Marilyn
0:35:37 > 0:35:40and Enid remembered more than anyone else
0:35:40 > 0:35:44about the difficult situations Maya had got herself into.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47First, by becoming pregnant with the man who didn't want to marry her
0:35:47 > 0:35:52and then, by having two further children with another man.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55Because, you see, she couldn't marry their dad
0:35:55 > 0:35:57because he was already married.
0:35:57 > 0:36:03And his wife was in a mental home.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04So he was unable to marry.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08But they had these two lovely girls. Isn't it tragic?
0:36:08 > 0:36:13You know, you get one black sheep in the family,
0:36:13 > 0:36:16but to think Auntie Maya was that, for me to take it in,
0:36:16 > 0:36:18that she was the black sheep,
0:36:18 > 0:36:23you know, it's very hard for me to take in cos I adored her.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25Everyone did.
0:36:25 > 0:36:30Maya put her two daughters by this second man into a convent school
0:36:30 > 0:36:32and never saw them again.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37We identified two that we thought
0:36:37 > 0:36:41were probably the children of the deceased mother
0:36:41 > 0:36:44and we obtained copies of the birth certificates
0:36:44 > 0:36:46and low and behold, they were right.
0:36:46 > 0:36:51Marcus now had the names of two half-sisters to Peter Harris.
0:36:51 > 0:36:57As close a kin to him than all of the family from the Angove side,
0:36:57 > 0:37:00they were entitled to all of his £91,000.
0:37:00 > 0:37:06Further research into these half-sisters showed that Marilyn had died
0:37:06 > 0:37:12but had a daughter, Deborah, making Mary and Deborah Peter Harris' heirs.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15Marcus got in touch with Deborah first.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19It was a surprise when I found out I'd got an uncle
0:37:19 > 0:37:24because I didn't...ever recall my mum had got a brother.
0:37:24 > 0:37:29But then, my mum's mum left
0:37:29 > 0:37:30when my mum was very young,
0:37:30 > 0:37:34so initially I thought it must be a younger brother.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37Then Marcus explained very, very nicely
0:37:37 > 0:37:41that he'd been born on the wrong side of the blanket
0:37:41 > 0:37:45before my mum and my aunt had been born.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Marcus was convinced that Deborah and Mary
0:37:50 > 0:37:53were related to Peter Harris and that Peter Harris
0:37:53 > 0:37:55was the same man as Simon Angrove.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58But putting a case together to convince the Treasury
0:37:58 > 0:38:00was another matter.
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Myself and Marcus were absolutely convinced
0:38:02 > 0:38:04we'd found the right family.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08Trying to convince the Treasury when we can only write to them
0:38:08 > 0:38:10was even more problematic.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13This has always been the problem.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17Trying to get to the bottom of whether Peter Harris
0:38:17 > 0:38:20and Simon Alban-Angrove were the same person
0:38:20 > 0:38:22because he never changed his name by Deed Poll,
0:38:22 > 0:38:25there was no legal change of name, nothing like that.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28Were that the case, it would have been easier to prove.
0:38:28 > 0:38:35When he left the family home when he was 21, he became Simon Peter Angove.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38Then at some stage he added the name Alban,
0:38:38 > 0:38:41after his place of birth, St Albans.
0:38:41 > 0:38:45When his death was registered, it was Simon Alban-Angrove.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48The Angrove was a mis-spelling of Angove.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52And there were more than just name discrepanices to deal with.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56The date of birth on the birth of Peter Harris
0:38:56 > 0:39:00and the date of birth on the death for Simon Alban-Angrove
0:39:00 > 0:39:03didn't tie up exactly.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05The day was right. The month was right.
0:39:05 > 0:39:08The year was five years out on the death.
0:39:08 > 0:39:10Six years after starting the case,
0:39:10 > 0:39:15Marcus submitted the claim as best he could. And crossed his fingers.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17But the Treasury were not won over.
0:39:17 > 0:39:22We reached the point where we put a claim in to the Treasury solicitor's office
0:39:22 > 0:39:27and quite rightly so, they threw it out and told me to go away.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30It was a disappointment for the team,
0:39:30 > 0:39:34but on the positive side, all the hard work by Frasers
0:39:34 > 0:39:38had brought together the different sides of a very fragmented family.
0:39:38 > 0:39:39The great thing about this
0:39:39 > 0:39:42is that we've actually now been able to reunite
0:39:42 > 0:39:47Mrs Johnson with Mrs Williams, the half-sister of the deceased.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50As I said, she's not seen her since she was a little girl.
0:39:50 > 0:39:55Enid and Mary were cousins who had known each other as children
0:39:55 > 0:39:59but hadn't seen each other for decades.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01And when she said, "I'm known as Cherry,"
0:40:01 > 0:40:04that didn't surprise me either
0:40:04 > 0:40:10because although I was only 17 and I'm now 78 not out,
0:40:10 > 0:40:15I remember her nickname, you know, her little pet name.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17Cherry.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21It looked as if the Alban-Harris case was to be laid to rest here,
0:40:21 > 0:40:24but then there was another twist in the plot.
0:40:24 > 0:40:30We heard from a legal executive who had worked for a solicitor's
0:40:30 > 0:40:36in South East London when the deceased walked in,
0:40:38 > 0:40:41asking him to, we believe,
0:40:41 > 0:40:45deal with his portion of his late mother's,
0:40:45 > 0:40:50the lady he believed to be his mother, Mrs Angove, her estate.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56He had a diary from 1981
0:40:56 > 0:40:59with a record of his meeting with the gentleman in it
0:40:59 > 0:41:02and crucially, it wasn't Angrove in the diary.
0:41:02 > 0:41:07It was Angove. That's the point we knew...we've got it.
0:41:07 > 0:41:11With this new evidence, Marcus approached the Treasury again.
0:41:11 > 0:41:16And today, he's been given their final decision on the case.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20About midday today I got an email
0:41:20 > 0:41:22from the Treasury solicitor's office
0:41:22 > 0:41:24that they finally admitted the claim to the estate.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28They admitted that the person we put a claim forward for
0:41:28 > 0:41:31was a half-sister of the deceased.
0:41:31 > 0:41:32Simon Alban-Angrove.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34I'm absolutely thrilled.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37It's the best news I've had in ages. It's fantastic.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40There is no way we could have solved this estate
0:41:40 > 0:41:43without an appeal going out on the previous series
0:41:43 > 0:41:44but it's absolutely brilliant.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46We never thought we'd solve it.
0:41:46 > 0:41:51I think this must be one of the best pieces of research and the best...
0:41:51 > 0:41:55the hardest families we have ever put together
0:41:55 > 0:42:01so to be involved in it and for it to be coming now is great news.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05Marcus was over the moon when we eventually got the claim accepted.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09Drained by the whole thing, really. I feel completely exhausted.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13We've even got confetti now because...
0:42:13 > 0:42:16We're celebrating in here, you see.
0:42:16 > 0:42:21But there's one last thing for Marcus to do. Call the heirs.
0:42:21 > 0:42:25The Treasury solicitor have admitted the claim.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27Your claim.
0:42:27 > 0:42:31And for the two heirs to the Alban-Harris £91,000 estate,
0:42:31 > 0:42:34it's also a time to celebrate.
0:42:34 > 0:42:39To inherit money from somebody you don't know is a bit surreal, really.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42It just seems a bit strange.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45You know, it's got that weird factor to it, you know?
0:42:45 > 0:42:47But, it's nice that Fraser
0:42:47 > 0:42:52spent the time to track me down and let me know.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54If they hadn't have done, I'd be none the wiser.
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