0:00:02 > 0:00:08Today, the heir hunters are looking into an estate worth an estimated £200,000.
0:00:08 > 0:00:10Just a question of sitting here and waiting now.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14Somewhere, out there, are some long lost relatives,
0:00:14 > 0:00:17who have no idea they're in line for a windfall.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Could the heir hunters be knocking at your door?
0:00:38 > 0:00:39On today's show,
0:00:39 > 0:00:42even finding close family proves a struggle.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44Right.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46That's all wrong.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49And the search for a sailor's heirs
0:00:49 > 0:00:51is hampered by a very common surname.
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Every village has got maybe half a dozen different Evans families.
0:00:56 > 0:01:03Plus, how you may be entitled to inherit an unclaimed estate held by the Treasury.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06Could thousands of pounds be heading your way?
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Every year in the UK,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21an estimated 300,000 people die without leaving a will.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25If no relatives are found,
0:01:25 > 0:01:29then any money that's left behind goes to the government.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33Last year, they kept £14 million from unclaimed estates.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37That's where the heir hunters come in.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41They make it their business to track down missing relatives,
0:01:41 > 0:01:44and help them claim their just inheritance.
0:01:45 > 0:01:50It's about reuniting people with what's rightfully theirs.
0:02:00 > 0:02:03It's 7am at the offices of heir hunting company Fraser & Fraser.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06And they're already hard at work.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11The Treasury's list of people who have died without a will has just been released.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15The case of Robin Hunt has caught the eye of senior partner Neil Fraser.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20Records show that he did own his own flat, which he sold in 2001.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23But, after that, there's no trace of him.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26The case of Hunt, we're looking at initially, because
0:02:26 > 0:02:30it would appear that the old property was sold for £85,000.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32We think he's probably moved
0:02:32 > 0:02:36to a nursing home or a sheltered accommodation,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38and they haven't put him on the electoral roll.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41To find out if they are right,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44they need to see Robin's death certificate.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49The heir hunters earn their money by charging a percentage of the estate for their services.
0:02:49 > 0:02:54The team need to know if he owned his own property and, if so, what it's worth.
0:02:54 > 0:02:55Morning, Bob.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00While most of the research is done by the office team,
0:03:00 > 0:03:04they rely on frontline investigators, like Bob Smith,
0:03:04 > 0:03:07to follow leads, sign up heirs,
0:03:07 > 0:03:09and determine the estate's value.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11We'll pick up a copy of his death certificate.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12See where he died.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16Make enquiries at that address.
0:03:24 > 0:03:30Robin Hunt died in Bournemouth, on the 9th March 2011, aged 69,
0:03:30 > 0:03:33without a will.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37His friend Shane only knew him towards the end of his life,
0:03:37 > 0:03:40when ill health meant he was often housebound.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42He had breathing difficulties.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44We also had bad legs,
0:03:44 > 0:03:47so he suffered with walking.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49He was on a lot of medication.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53But, despite his problems, he remembers Robin as a cheerful man.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56He could still laugh, and crack a smile.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59It didn't matter what happened, nothing ever got him down.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03And when it did, he bounced back so fast.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Shane recalls how Robin always seemed to have a deal on the go.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08He was a wheeler and dealer.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Even when I knew him,
0:04:10 > 0:04:14he'd always be going on about making money.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16He was always interested in properties.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22He'd be doing the figures, working out where a pound can be made, stuff like that.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24Quite a clever man.
0:04:24 > 0:04:28The team are making a start on Robin's family tree.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30They think he was born in Surrey.
0:04:30 > 0:04:36The records, which only show surnames, list his parents as Hunt and Honeyball.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39Without his birth certificate, which includes their full names,
0:04:39 > 0:04:41it's hard to make progress.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44But, as the Register Office isn't open yet,
0:04:44 > 0:04:47researcher Rihanna is looking for their marriage.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49There's actually two marriages.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53- Two marriages of a Hunt to Honeyball? - Yeah. So I'm eliminating the Poplar...
0:04:53 > 0:04:57So where was the other marriage? Where was the marriage, where were the two marriages?
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Chelsea and Poplar.
0:04:59 > 0:05:02- They could be any, could be either, couldn't it?- Yeah.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04As Robin was a bachelor, and did not have children,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07his closest heirs would be siblings.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10If they can find his parents' marriage, they can start to search for them.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13But, at the moment, it's all guesswork.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17There's two marriages for Hunt to Honeyball.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19The parents' marriages.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21But there's all these births.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Following a hunch that the Chelsea marriage is the correct one,
0:05:26 > 0:05:30Rihanna has identified four possible siblings born in Surrey.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33The youngest one was in 1944.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37The oldest in 1929.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39So it's pretty good.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44It's likely that one of them, at least, could be alive. That would be really good.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- He was born in...- Surrey.- Surrey. - Mm hm.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50So there's another birth, other births in Surrey.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53And then one's in Epsom.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Right, so you got births in Poplar that time with that marriage.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58In other words, it's the Chelsea marriage.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01And then, where the parents are born, Epsom, Chelsea.
0:06:01 > 0:06:06- I think you might have something there, Rihanna.- Yeah. I think I do.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Case manager David Pacifico is feeling confident.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It looks like we've got sibling still alive.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19The team get to work, trying to find Robin's brothers and sisters.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22I'm just looking for a Barbara Hunt,
0:06:22 > 0:06:24to see if she's still alive.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26I'm working on Stuart W Hunt.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30He is the brother of the deceased.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34He may have lost contact with the family, for whatever reason.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39What we need to do is to trace and contact the first person,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41and go from there.
0:06:41 > 0:06:42While the team trace the siblings,
0:06:42 > 0:06:46David tries calling one of Robin's old neighbours,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48to see what he can find out.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51I represent a company of probate researchers.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55We've been trying to track down the next of kin of a Mr Robin Hunt.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58The father would have died in Christchurch,
0:06:58 > 0:07:01so would the mother.
0:07:01 > 0:07:02Do you think he was an only child,
0:07:02 > 0:07:06or do you think he may have had any brothers or sisters?
0:07:06 > 0:07:08He was an only child.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10Alarm bells are ringing for David.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13The parents they've been chasing had more than one child,
0:07:13 > 0:07:15and lived in Surrey.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Thank you. Bye bye.
0:07:18 > 0:07:19That's all wrong.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21The parents both died in Christchurch.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25It doesn't, it's totally different from that family.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28Right.
0:07:28 > 0:07:29That's all wrong.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31I've spoken to a neighbour.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35It's terrible news, they've been investigating the wrong family.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37The deceased did not have siblings,
0:07:37 > 0:07:39and his parents lived in Christchurch.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41- That is wrong.- What's wrong?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- The complete...- This is no good?- No.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49I spoke to a neighbour that knew him for the last 13 years.
0:07:49 > 0:07:51- That family is wrong? - That family is definitely wrong.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54Unfortunately she can't remember the names of the parents.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58David needs the full names of Robin's parents, fast.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01It's now nine o'clock, and they've lost valuable time.
0:08:01 > 0:08:02We need to get this birth.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Can somebody phone up one of the Surreys, and see which Surrey it is?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09After checking Surrey's Register Offices,
0:08:09 > 0:08:14the team finally order the birth certificate from neighbouring Merton.
0:08:14 > 0:08:15But it could take a while.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17In the meantime, David wants to check
0:08:17 > 0:08:21if the second marriage they've found of Charles Hunt and Mabel Honeyball, in Poplar,
0:08:21 > 0:08:24could be Robin's parents.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27What they need to know is where they died.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31Can you check for the death of Charles F Hunt, and Mabel Hunt, see where they come out?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Because I think that marriage might be right.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36They should have died in Christchurch.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39The neighbour's valuable information has saved them time.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42She's also given them the address of a flat in Bournemouth,
0:08:42 > 0:08:44owned by the deceased when he died.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48So, if there's property involved, there should be money in the estate.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51He's bought about five flats since he left that one.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53It seems Robin liked to dabble in property.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57But, what they need to know is what his last flat was worth.
0:08:57 > 0:09:02He owns a property. However, there's a charge on that property,
0:09:02 > 0:09:04which looks like, to me, equity release.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07We don't know how much equity he has released from that property.
0:09:07 > 0:09:11It could be 100%, it could be 10%. We just don't know at the moment.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14So, with property involved, they know the case has value.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19But, with money borrowed against the flat, they can't be sure how much.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Down in Bournemouth,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Bob has confirmed Robin's last address of his death certificate.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28The office want him to check the flat out,
0:09:28 > 0:09:29and get an idea of what it's worth.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Looks quite nice, looks as if it's a private residential area.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Not local authority. So
0:09:37 > 0:09:42I'll just make enquiries with the neighbours.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52DOOR BUZZER
0:09:56 > 0:09:59On the landing where the deceased lived,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02no one answered the doors.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05So, Bob hasn't had much luck,
0:10:05 > 0:10:07and it's the same story back in the office.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10While they wait for the birth certificate,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12the team aren't sure which leads to follow.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15Shall we check an adoption for him?
0:10:17 > 0:10:22If we go with that Poplar marriage, we can't disprove that yet, right?
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Perhaps he is adopted.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26Are you working up those two births?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Is there anything positive...
0:10:28 > 0:10:30Can someone give Roger a hand,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33working up the Poplar marriage?
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Coming up: Heir hunter Frances has a controversial theory
0:10:38 > 0:10:41about why they can't identify Robin's family.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42It's war time.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46She had a relationship with a Mr Hunt.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Now, Mr Hunt could well have been a married man.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Could Frances be onto something?
0:10:53 > 0:10:57And will it lead to Robin's elusive parents?
0:11:02 > 0:11:07In 2009, heir hunters Celtic Research began looking into a case
0:11:07 > 0:11:09that they thought would be easy.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11But, faced with an international family,
0:11:11 > 0:11:14and one of the UK's most common surnames,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17after nine months' research, they gave up.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21Without a connection, we just couldn't make a claim.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23The following year, they reopen the case.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28And, this time, they were determined to crack it.
0:11:28 > 0:11:34Josiah Arthur Webbe died on January 19th 1987, aged 86.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36He left an estate worth £70,000.
0:11:36 > 0:11:40He was a sailor, and lived in a small village by the sea,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42in Gwynedd, North Wales.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Sadly, there are no known existing photos of the man himself.
0:11:46 > 0:11:51But family friend Gwyn Jones and his sister Haf remember him fondly.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Well, Arthur had a typical seafarer's complexion,
0:11:55 > 0:12:01which was in fitting with his background on the seas.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06He was very popular in the village.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10Lots of people thought the world of Arthur.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14A very, very kind person.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20When his name was published on the weekly Treasury list,
0:12:20 > 0:12:24heir hunter Peter Birchwood took up the case.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Unlike their standard jobs, where the deceased dies without a will,
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Josiah Arthur had written one, but there was a problem with it.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Josiah Arthur Webbe left a will.
0:12:34 > 0:12:38He'd made out all of his assets to his wife.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42But, unfortunately, as she predeceased him,
0:12:42 > 0:12:44the will was not valid.
0:12:44 > 0:12:49Josiah Arthur's will hadn't named any other family or friends as beneficiaries.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52And he did not have children.
0:12:52 > 0:12:55So, Peter began his search for blood relatives who would inherit his money.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59In the heir hunting game, names are everything,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02and Josiah Arthur's surname was a good start.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07Webbe is one of those names that can be spelt several different ways.
0:13:07 > 0:13:13And, when we've got it spelt with an 'e' on the end, it's relatively uncommon.
0:13:13 > 0:13:17From the date of his death, Peter managed to find Arthur's birth certificate,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20and the names of his parents.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24His mother, Elizabeth Evans, married his father,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28also from Josiah Arthur Webbe, in 1897.
0:13:28 > 0:13:31Peter discovered that the sea was something of a theme in the Webbe family,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34starting with his father.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Josiah Arthur senior was a second mate for the merchant Navy.
0:13:48 > 0:13:53The Merchant Navies consisted of hundreds of private companies
0:13:53 > 0:13:56running merchant ships, from huge passenger liners,
0:13:56 > 0:14:01to very undistinguished trunk ships of 3,000 or 4,000 tonnes.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Down to small coasters running around the coast.
0:14:05 > 0:14:10But, in World War I, the Merchant Navy became part of the war effort.
0:14:10 > 0:14:14Trade and export abroad still had to continue,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16despite Britain being at war with Germany.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Josiah Arthur Senior was sailing the seas at an extremely dangerous time.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24During the start of the war,
0:14:24 > 0:14:29he sailed for three years with no protection from the Navy against German attack.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32And it was during this dire period of the war
0:14:32 > 0:14:37that the SS Whitgift, that Josiah Senior sailed on,
0:14:37 > 0:14:38fell victim to German attack.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43She was on a voyage from Spain to Britain,
0:14:43 > 0:14:45with a cargo of iron ore.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47An immensely heavy cargo.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50So the ship was loaded down to her marks,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54and there was still an enormous amount of space in her holds.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57So, when she was struck by a torpedo from U-67,
0:14:57 > 0:15:01somewhere off Ushant, in the outer reaches of the English Channel,
0:15:01 > 0:15:03she sank very quickly.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08And, in the case of the Whitgift, all her crew were lost, 33 men.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Despite losing his father whilst still in his teens,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Josiah Arthur followed in his footsteps,
0:15:15 > 0:15:19and joined the Merchant Navy himself.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23One of the things that we learned about Mr Webbe
0:15:23 > 0:15:25from speaking to people in the village
0:15:25 > 0:15:29was that he had been a retired sea captain, a master mariner.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33That, of course, was also listed on his death record.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37So, it didn't really surprise us when we found that he was
0:15:37 > 0:15:41actually born not in North Wales, where he died,
0:15:41 > 0:15:47but in Liverpool where his father was also in the merchant marines.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51From his parents marriage certificate, Peter discovered
0:15:51 > 0:15:54that Josiah Arthur had had a brother, David,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57but he had died before him, without children.
0:15:58 > 0:15:59With close kin ruled out,
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Peter would need to go up the paternal family tree
0:16:02 > 0:16:05to try and trace Josiah Arthur's aunt or uncles.
0:16:05 > 0:16:09To find his grandparents he began by checking Josiah senior's
0:16:09 > 0:16:13birth certificate and he made a surprising discovery.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18We found out on the census, the 1901 and the 1911 census,
0:16:18 > 0:16:23Josiah had been born in the Caribbean on the island of Nevis.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29He found out the deceased's grandfather, Charles Webbe,
0:16:29 > 0:16:31had been a sugar planter.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34In the late 17th century,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Nevis was one of the headquarters of the British slave trade.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41With high-quality sugarcane produced on the island,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43and using African slaves for labour,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46Nevis became a great source of wealth from Britain
0:16:46 > 0:16:48and possibly the Webbe family.
0:16:48 > 0:16:54Although Charles would have been planting his sugar
0:16:54 > 0:16:59after the abolition of slavery, it's clear from further records
0:16:59 > 0:17:06that the Webbe family in Nevis had owed to slaves.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11That might have been the great grandfather of the deceased
0:17:11 > 0:17:16because we did find indications of slave owning
0:17:16 > 0:17:19in the sugar plantations there.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23So far the case had gone smoothly but Josiah Arthur senior's
0:17:23 > 0:17:28Caribbean roots spelt disaster for Peter's hunt.
0:17:29 > 0:17:33It really wasn't a financial possibility for one
0:17:33 > 0:17:34or other of us to go over.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38If we could get an agent on Nevis to do the research,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40then that would be the way to go.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43But, we couldn't find anyone who could do the work
0:17:43 > 0:17:47or would be willing to even take a look at the research.
0:17:47 > 0:17:53It was a massive blow. The paternal search for heirs had to be shelved.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Now, the only hope of finding beneficiaries to Josiah Arthur's
0:17:56 > 0:18:01£70,000 estate rested with his mother, Elizabeth Evans.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04But Peter felt it wasn't going to be easy.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09Evans in North Wales, there are thousands of them.
0:18:09 > 0:18:14Every village has got maybe half a dozen different Evans families.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17He decided to admit defeat and close the case.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22The following year, determined not to be beaten,
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Peter began a fresh hunt for the heirs to Josiah Arthur's £70,000 estate.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32He made a start on the family tree of his mother, Elizabeth Evans.
0:18:32 > 0:18:37We know from her marriage to the father of the deceased
0:18:37 > 0:18:43that her own father is a Solomon Evans and Solomon is a quarry man.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46We know where they were living.
0:18:46 > 0:18:51We know where they were living at the time of the 1871 census.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Peter discovered that the deceased grandfather, Solomon,
0:18:54 > 0:18:59and his wife Mary lived in Llanvihangel in North Wales.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01They had three children,
0:19:01 > 0:19:05Elizabeth, Josiah Arthur's mother, another daughter, Jane
0:19:05 > 0:19:07and a son, David.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10They would no longer be alive but if they had children,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14they would be Josiah Arthur's cousins and heirs to his estate.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16To try and find them,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Peter needed to know where they ended up as adults.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22With such common names, it would be difficult.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25His best chance was to follow their fathers more unusual name
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and hope they had settled close to their parents.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29But it didn't go to plan.
0:19:29 > 0:19:35We can find him in the 1871 census with his children.
0:19:35 > 0:19:43We find him in the 1881 census. But, after that there's nothing.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48The trail has gone cold. Had he died? Had he moved? Peter was stumped.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Coming up, having reopened the case,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55he faced another insurmountable hurdle.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00We researched virtually every Evans family in the Llanvihangel area
0:20:00 > 0:20:03and we weren't coming up with anything.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Was Peter going to abandoned the heir hunt for a second time?
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Heir hunter's work hard to solve thousands of cases a year,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20ensuring millions of pounds are paid out to rightful heirs.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22Not every case can be cracked.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26The Treasury has a list of over 2,000 estates that have baffled
0:20:26 > 0:20:29the heir hunters and remain unclaimed.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32These estates stay on the list for up to 30 years
0:20:32 > 0:20:37and each one could be worth anything from £5,000 to many millions.
0:20:37 > 0:20:41Today, we're focusing on three names from the list.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Are they relatives of yours?
0:20:42 > 0:20:46Could you be in line for an unexpected windfall?
0:20:46 > 0:20:52Paul Anthony Bebb died in Mexborough Doncaster in January 2007.
0:20:52 > 0:20:57Bebb is a Celtic name and the vast majority of Bebbs are in Wales.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00Could you be related? Does Bebb ring a bell with you?
0:21:00 > 0:21:06Maria Ellen Quint died in Kent in March, way back in 1960.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Some new assets must have come to light for her
0:21:08 > 0:21:13to appear on the list, 40 years after her death.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14Do you remember her?
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Doreen Hadlum died in Gillingham, Kent, in December 2004.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Hadlum is an extremely rare surname.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26There are only a handful of Hadlums in the UK.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Do you have this surname?
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Could Doreen be a distant family member?
0:21:30 > 0:21:33If no heirs are found, her money will go to the government.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39All these states are worth at least £5,000 but could be a lot more.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42Only successful heirs will be told.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47If the names Paul Bebb, Maria Quint or Doreen Hadlum mean
0:21:47 > 0:21:49anything to you, or someone you know,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52you could have a fortune coming your way.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07Heir hunter, Peter Birchwood, was working on the case of Josiah Arthur Webbe.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12He died aged 86, leaving an estate worth £70,000.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Pete had begun looking for his heirs in 2009,
0:22:17 > 0:22:21but when the paternal trail led to the Caribbean, he hit a brick wall.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25It's not an area where we've ever had to research in the past,
0:22:25 > 0:22:29so, we didn't have any agents there to help us out.
0:22:29 > 0:22:32With a name like Elizabeth Evans,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35chasing heirs on his mother's side, was a daunting prospect.
0:22:35 > 0:22:41Evans is not the sort of name that's easy to research.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Peter threw in the towel.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47The following year, he decided to give the heir hunt another go.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52He traced the deceased's maternal grandfather, Solomon,
0:22:52 > 0:22:54and found he had three children,
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Josiah Arthur's mother, Elizabeth,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59another daughter, Jane, and a son, David.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03But then records of the head of the family disappeared.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06We find him in the 1881 census,
0:23:06 > 0:23:09but after that, there's nothing.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Then, at last, they had some luck.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17We actually had one of our researchers go through
0:23:17 > 0:23:22the records again this time looking for misspellings,
0:23:22 > 0:23:26mis-transcriptions of Solomon's name.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30His name had been misspelt.
0:23:30 > 0:23:35He had died in 1880s and his death certificate gave the family's address.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Peter hoped his children had stayed in the area.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41He started by looking for Jane.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44We checked to see if we could find marriages for her,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47that's the most likely possibility
0:23:47 > 0:23:50but even restricting it to the area we could find
0:23:50 > 0:23:56probably about 130 marriages of a Jane Evans, any one of which could be correct.
0:23:56 > 0:24:01We decided that it was too difficult, we couldn't find anything.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05We had put all of our research onto David Evans.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Peter's last hope of finding any of Josiah Arthur's heirs
0:24:10 > 0:24:14now rested on his uncle, with the common name of David Evans.
0:24:14 > 0:24:21Eventually we found a David Evans in the census who,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24we think, is definitely the right person
0:24:24 > 0:24:26because he's born in the right area.
0:24:26 > 0:24:32He is the right age and he married a Jane Pugh.
0:24:32 > 0:24:37David Evans's father was Solomon, who was a quarry man, deceased.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40So that identified it for us.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44He discovered that David was the foreman at Dolgellau Station
0:24:44 > 0:24:47in Snowdonia, at the turn of the century.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49It was part of the Cambrian railway network
0:24:49 > 0:24:52and at the height of the steam age.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55It linked large parts of mid and North Wales
0:24:55 > 0:24:56and the Shropshire border.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57David Evans was the,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00I'd suppose you would call him today,
0:25:00 > 0:25:02the station inspector
0:25:02 > 0:25:04up at Dolgellau.
0:25:04 > 0:25:08It was his job to ensure that the whole of the station,
0:25:08 > 0:25:12the yard itself ran efficiently.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15He would be in charge of all the shunters,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17make certain that all the signals were working properly.
0:25:17 > 0:25:23Even, would you believe, getting a brush out and cleaning the platform station.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25That was his job. A very important job.
0:25:25 > 0:25:30The station opened in 1868, but nothing remains of it today,
0:25:30 > 0:25:34after it was demolished to make way for a bypass in the 1970s.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39The railway station was the hub of everything.
0:25:39 > 0:25:44There was very little transport, cars and buses and things like that.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47Everybody came and went by train.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51You'd get all the milk churns, and everything like that,
0:25:51 > 0:25:55all the parcels, chickens, you name it, everything went by it.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Even fish, would you believe, was taken by rail.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00David and his wife Jane had five children,
0:26:00 > 0:26:04two sons, Griffith Solomon and David Charles
0:26:04 > 0:26:09and three daughters, Jennie Enid, Nira and Mair.
0:26:09 > 0:26:10If they were still alive,
0:26:10 > 0:26:14they would be Josiah Arthur's first cousins and heirs to his estate.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17At last, Peter felt he was getting closer.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20I was beginning to think that somewhere out there there were
0:26:20 > 0:26:24live people who we could contact
0:26:24 > 0:26:28and tell them about their inheritance.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Peter began by looking for the eldest child, Griffith.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37He discovered that he had died in Shrewsbury in 1972.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40I did find a couple of neighbours who remembered him
0:26:40 > 0:26:47but the indications that I had were that the Griffith Solomon Evans,
0:26:47 > 0:26:50we were looking for, did not have any children.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53With a more common name than his brother,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56David Evans was going to be hard to find.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Instead, Peter thought that his sisters,
0:26:58 > 0:27:02with their more unusual names would be easier.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04The first girl was Jennie Enid
0:27:04 > 0:27:10and that's a name that you wouldn't think there will be too many of them.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15Mair and Nira, the three girls in the family.
0:27:15 > 0:27:20But, the complication turned out to be that Jennie Enid married
0:27:20 > 0:27:24an Evans and Nira married an Evans
0:27:24 > 0:27:31and, at least, during the first searches, we couldn't find Mair marrying at all.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35So two of the Evans girls had married other Evans.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40It was a researcher's nightmare. Peter asked his son, Hector, in his London office for help.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43He took on the massive task of searching through
0:27:43 > 0:27:45all the records to try and find them.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Finally, after all the dead ends and disappointments,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51there was a breakthrough.
0:27:51 > 0:27:55I was just about to close up the office and I got a phone calls
0:27:55 > 0:28:00and e-mails from Hector saying he thought that he had identified
0:28:00 > 0:28:04a lady who was definitely one of the members of the family.
0:28:07 > 0:28:12At last, after two years, this tough case finally had an heir
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Iola was Nira's daughter,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18which made her Josiah Arthur's cousin once removed.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21When Peter called her, she was confused.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26He kept mentioning a surname Webbe and Evans and I didn't know a Webbe.
0:28:26 > 0:28:33Only when he mentioned about that's where there was a Webbe
0:28:33 > 0:28:39in Liverpool who had married Elizabeth, that was my grandfather's sister.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44Then I realised that there must be a connection
0:28:44 > 0:28:49because my mother used to talk about an aunt in Liverpool.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52Iola had never heard of Josiah Arthur
0:28:52 > 0:28:55but she does remember visiting his uncle,
0:28:55 > 0:28:59station foreman, David Evans, her maternal grandfather.
0:28:59 > 0:29:03We always used to very excited when we were going on the steam engine
0:29:03 > 0:29:09to go to Dolgellau to my grandparents home.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12Since finding Iola, Peter has discovered another part
0:29:12 > 0:29:15of the maternal family that he didn't know about and has made
0:29:15 > 0:29:21contact with many more beneficiaries to Josiah Arthur's £70,000 estate.
0:29:21 > 0:29:27We've got eight or ten heirs that we are representing right now.
0:29:27 > 0:29:32We would really hope that they'll be another two or three
0:29:32 > 0:29:34once we find this missing branch.
0:29:34 > 0:29:38On and off, the case took two years to crack.
0:29:38 > 0:29:40The paternal heirs in the Caribbean were never found
0:29:40 > 0:29:43but Peter's persistence with the Evans side of the family
0:29:43 > 0:29:46eventually paid off.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49Although at times we thought that it really was going to end up
0:29:49 > 0:29:52that they'd be no heirs, I'm really very happy
0:29:52 > 0:29:54that I've been proved wrong.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57There are a number of them out there and we found them.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02I think it is very sad that we are inheriting this money
0:30:02 > 0:30:08from the Webbe family, which we didn't know existed.
0:30:14 > 0:30:17Heir Hunters Fraser & Fraser were working on the case of Robin Hunt.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20He died in Bournemouth in March 2011
0:30:20 > 0:30:25leaving an estate worth an estimated £200,000,
0:30:25 > 0:30:27but no will.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29The team got off to a good start
0:30:29 > 0:30:31and thought they'd found his parents marriage
0:30:31 > 0:30:34but, after speaking to an old neighbour,
0:30:34 > 0:30:36they discovered they'd been barking up the wrong tree.
0:30:36 > 0:30:40Right. That's all wrong.
0:30:41 > 0:30:46After two hours research, it was back to the drawing board.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55Robin Hunt ran a pub in Banbury, Oxfordshire
0:30:55 > 0:30:58with his parents in the 1970s.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02Tony Bell took over as landlord and remembers him as a sociable man.
0:31:02 > 0:31:10Well, I think it was sort of mum and dad ran the front of the pub
0:31:10 > 0:31:15and then, behind-the-scenes there was a big function room upstairs
0:31:15 > 0:31:20which, I think Robin used to organise a sort of a party atmosphere,
0:31:20 > 0:31:27discos, young people's clubs, that sort of thing.
0:31:30 > 0:31:31People don't go to parties
0:31:31 > 0:31:34if they don't like the person who's organising them, you know,
0:31:34 > 0:31:38so, I mean, I suppose he was a bit of a party animal.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42Everybody knows who's working behind the bar,
0:31:42 > 0:31:46and he was quite well-known in Banbury.
0:31:50 > 0:31:53Back on the hunt for Robin's heirs,
0:31:53 > 0:31:55they still don't have his parents' full names.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59Without them, they can't look for heirs.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Still unable to find a record of their marriage,
0:32:01 > 0:32:04manager Frances has a theory.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08Has somebody checked whether it's also under Honeyball?
0:32:08 > 0:32:11Roger. Roger.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Very quick, can you check, it's very important?
0:32:14 > 0:32:16That this goes under Honeyball.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18December '41, Honeyball.
0:32:20 > 0:32:21It is.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24They got married.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28Well done, Frances. She's solved the mystery.
0:32:28 > 0:32:30So, Robin was born illegitimately.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34He was registered, not just under his father's name, Hunt,
0:32:34 > 0:32:36as is the case for married couples,
0:32:36 > 0:32:39but his mother's name, Honeyball, too
0:32:39 > 0:32:41They registered under both names.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Both parents would sign the register.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Means they're not married.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48So what is the Hunt connection then?
0:32:49 > 0:32:54It's wartime. She had a relationship with a Mr Hunt.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58Now, Mr Hunt could well have been a married man.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01The records still only show surnames
0:33:01 > 0:33:04and now, as no marriage certificate exists,
0:33:04 > 0:33:07the only other document that would give them his parents' full names
0:33:07 > 0:33:10is Robin's birth certificate.
0:33:10 > 0:33:13That birth is under a Honeyball as well, by the way.
0:33:13 > 0:33:17The parents are not married. We definitely need that birth.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20With Bob still busy in Bournemouth,
0:33:20 > 0:33:24David calls a second on-the-road researcher, Bob Barrett, for help.
0:33:24 > 0:33:27- Hello?- Hello, Bob.- Hiya.
0:33:27 > 0:33:28Merchant register office.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31We're still supposedly looking up the birth.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Which one's this for?
0:33:33 > 0:33:37This is on the case of Hunt, Robin Hunt.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39We really do need his birth,
0:33:39 > 0:33:44we can't identify the parents' names without it, I don't think.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45OK, on the way, then. Cheers.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47Thanks, Bob. Bye.
0:33:49 > 0:33:54We've waited an hour, an hour and a half now and they still haven't
0:33:54 > 0:33:59said they've got it, so, I did want to go over there myself two hours ago
0:33:59 > 0:34:02and decided not to because they said they would do it, so we are stuck.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05We need to get that birth certificate.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08That's the document we haven't been able to get our hands on yet.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13Meanwhile, Robin's old neighbour has called in
0:34:13 > 0:34:14with some more information.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16I believe you called.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19Christchurch Cemetery.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24Frances, the mother's buried in Christchurch Cemetery.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26What about contacting Christchurch Cemetery?
0:34:26 > 0:34:29If they can get Robin's mother's full name
0:34:29 > 0:34:32without waiting for the birth certificate,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34they could at last start the hunt for heirs.
0:34:36 > 0:34:40While the team chase the cemetery, David wants Bob in Bournemouth
0:34:40 > 0:34:43to chase another lead from the neighbour.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46What I've been told is that the mother probably died
0:34:46 > 0:34:51about the 1980s, was last known to be living in a bungalow in Kingston.
0:34:51 > 0:34:55It's like a small village outside the confines of Bournemouth.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58It's a long shot, but Bob's off to the library
0:34:58 > 0:35:01to check the old electoral rolls
0:35:01 > 0:35:03and see if he can find Robin's mother's name that way.
0:35:03 > 0:35:06It may take a while.
0:35:06 > 0:35:11Our address is 1363. And it stops at 1362.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13Back in the office,
0:35:13 > 0:35:16they've discovered a website for Christchurch Cemetery.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20We don't know what surnamed Mum used
0:35:20 > 0:35:23and we certainly don't know what their first names were.
0:35:23 > 0:35:28But it would appear to work, by putting in the name, Hunt, there were
0:35:28 > 0:35:31certainly four people by the name of Hunt
0:35:31 > 0:35:35buried in Christchurch Cemetery.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38But you can't always rely on the internet.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41Look at the names of the cemeteries.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43You've got Ruru Lawns...
0:35:44 > 0:35:45Dunedin...
0:35:45 > 0:35:47Yeah...
0:35:47 > 0:35:50Doesn't sound like Christchurch, Dorset.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52Definitely one thing I can say to you,
0:35:52 > 0:35:56she's definitely not buried in Christchurch, New Zealand!
0:35:56 > 0:35:59Determined to get the stalled investigation moving,
0:35:59 > 0:36:03Frances calls the right Christchurch Cemetery.
0:36:03 > 0:36:05Thank you so much!
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Wonderful.
0:36:07 > 0:36:08Thank you. Bye-bye.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- Cracked it.- So who is her husband?
0:36:13 > 0:36:18Harold Stanley Hunt who died in 1976.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23It is the breakthrough they've been waiting for.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26An absolute long-shot that we were...
0:36:26 > 0:36:30David had been told that the deceased's mum
0:36:30 > 0:36:34had been buried in Christchurch cemetery in Dorset.
0:36:34 > 0:36:39Normally, cemeteries won't check their records.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Or don't have the facility to check records
0:36:42 > 0:36:47without an exact name and an exact age of death.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50Fortunately the lady did a search
0:36:50 > 0:36:55and Ellen Marie Hunt who died in 1979
0:36:55 > 0:36:59had purchased the grave in 1976
0:36:59 > 0:37:05when her husband Harold Stanley Hunt died in 1976.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07So, bingo.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10Good old-fashioned detective work paid dividends.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13Although she was not married,
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Robin's mother Ellen Honeyball used his father's surname, Hunt.
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Now they know his parents full names,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21they won't need Robin's birth certificate after all.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25There is a corresponding birth for her
0:37:25 > 0:37:28as Ellen Marie Honeyball in Edmonton.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30So, fantastic.
0:37:30 > 0:37:34Finally, they can now start searching for Robin's possible heirs.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38But there's still one mystery they still need to solve.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42Why were his parents, known as Mr and Mrs Hunt, not married?
0:37:42 > 0:37:45I am absolutely convinced that for some reason
0:37:45 > 0:37:50she could not marry him because he was already married to somebody else
0:37:50 > 0:37:53and couldn't, for whatever reason, claim a divorce maybe.
0:37:53 > 0:37:58Before people start charging back looking at brothers and sisters
0:37:58 > 0:38:02Harold had and what brothers and sisters Ellen had,
0:38:02 > 0:38:05we have got to have a look and see whether he himself
0:38:05 > 0:38:10had a family that will be the first people entitled.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14If Harold Hunt had children with his wife,
0:38:14 > 0:38:18as half-siblings they would be first in line to inherit
0:38:18 > 0:38:24Robin's estimated £200,000 estate before any full blood cousins.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27- What have you just found? - That's his first marriage, isn't it?
0:38:27 > 0:38:32- 28th.- Yes.- 23 when he married. - Just as I suspected, he was married.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39To a lady called Helen Brown when he was 23 years old.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42The couple married in Paddington and records show
0:38:42 > 0:38:46they had one daughter, Muriel, modern's half-sister.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49But there's bad news for the team.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53We believe the possible half-sister
0:38:53 > 0:38:57of Robin Hunt the deceased has died quite young.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01She married, didn't have any children.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04If that's the case, she is the only half-sister,
0:39:04 > 0:39:09that means we will have to go and research back into the family.
0:39:09 > 0:39:14The researchers can't be sure she was Harold Hunt's only other child.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17But with no leads to follow, they decide their best bet
0:39:17 > 0:39:21of finding heirs for Robin's estate is to trace his cousins.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23They start by looking for aunts and uncles.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26You got ten on that top line?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28- Yes.- This side of the tree is jumping up.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30There's ten stems on it already.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33One of them, I've just heard, has seven children.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35We're talking of lots and lots of beneficiaries.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39I am hoping once we get this up, one of them may know something
0:39:39 > 0:39:43about the deceased and may know if the father had any other children.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45But it's still a huge gamble to be working
0:39:45 > 0:39:47that many stems on the mother's side
0:39:47 > 0:39:49when we don't know what happened to near kin.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53They discover Robin has a huge family tree.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57Four aunts and five uncles on his mother's side.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59And two aunts on his father's.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02It will take more than a day to track them all down.
0:40:02 > 0:40:06A couple of hundred hours working on this today.
0:40:06 > 0:40:11Lots and lots of staff and a huge amount of expense so far for us
0:40:11 > 0:40:13and it's not finished yet.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19It's day two on the case,
0:40:19 > 0:40:22and on-the-road investigator Bob Barrett is on his way to meet Joyce.
0:40:22 > 0:40:26She's Robin's cousin through his Uncle Robert.
0:40:26 > 0:40:30Although confined to bed, she's agreed to see him.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31The person that has died,
0:40:31 > 0:40:35I don't know if they told you who it was in the office, did you know him?
0:40:35 > 0:40:39Very vaguely. I haven't seen him since my father died.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Right, so it wasn't a huge shock or anything?
0:40:42 > 0:40:46Another on the road investigator Ewart Lindsay
0:40:46 > 0:40:50is meeting Victor, he is Robin's cousin once removed.
0:40:50 > 0:40:54- The grandson of his Aunt Dora. - Just confirm your full name for me.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57- Victor Cyril... - Did you know the deceased?
0:40:57 > 0:41:05There was no communication between the previous generations and him.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07It's a pity really.
0:41:07 > 0:41:10We don't know how much the estate is worth.
0:41:10 > 0:41:14At the moment, we don't know how many people will have to share it.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17But there'll be a good few.
0:41:17 > 0:41:20- 'Hello.'- Hello, David. Bob Barrett.
0:41:20 > 0:41:26I have just seen Mrs Norman. She's bedridden.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29The poor lady had a stroke about 15 years ago
0:41:29 > 0:41:31and has been bedridden ever since.
0:41:31 > 0:41:34- 'Oh, God.'- So she's signed.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38'Right, that's it. You're finished today.'
0:41:38 > 0:41:42Bob's off home and Ewart's almost finished with the Victor.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46So, I'll leave you the agreement. OK?
0:41:46 > 0:41:51Any queries you can give my colleague a call in the office.
0:41:51 > 0:41:55We knew of this sort of unmarried relationship
0:41:55 > 0:41:59and that would have been a sensation in those days.
0:41:59 > 0:42:04We're talking 40, 50 years ago, more than that.
0:42:04 > 0:42:07That was a big no, no in those days.
0:42:07 > 0:42:09I certainly knew Robin existed,
0:42:09 > 0:42:15and when the phone call first came they talked about Harold
0:42:15 > 0:42:20and the name Robin just came into my head immediately.
0:42:20 > 0:42:25I always wondered about Robin, what he did and so on and so on.
0:42:25 > 0:42:29As it turned out, he seems to have been about my age.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32It would have been interesting to have talked to him,
0:42:32 > 0:42:34I'm sorry we didn't.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Victor's not sure how much he will inherit, but he has plans for it.
0:42:38 > 0:42:43We will probably help our two kids out with their house-buying.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46In the end, they found over 20 heirs
0:42:46 > 0:42:48to Robin's estimated £200,000 estate
0:42:48 > 0:42:52on the maternal and paternal sides of the family.
0:42:52 > 0:42:58Neil's fears of finding half-siblings failed to materialise.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01We can now conclude that the heirs which we have found
0:43:01 > 0:43:03and which we do represent are the correct beneficiaries
0:43:03 > 0:43:07and it is them who is going to share in the estate.
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