"Heir Hunters" #2

[old rowley]

not heard of land being commandeered for house building, compulsary purchased yes (this happened alot after the war for housing estates to be built) but not commandeered. In my own area of Essex all housing development was put on hold for the duration of the hostilities and were only resummed in late '45.

old rowley

[Danchaslyn]

Hello Springbok  &  Old Rowley

The "owner" of the plot, the son of the father, who left it to him 'in trust', when we queried it with him yesterday, saying "It can't be right, how can your solicitor say it was taken for the war effort", said:

As he had such limited time ashore (understandably) and each shore leave had to be spent, not only with his wife and children, but organising repairs to the neighbouring six houses, to the plot, which were let, he 'let it go', i.e couldn't cope with it.

He in later years has 'dealt' with the grandson solicitor, of his original solicitor, (also, obviously his father's solicitor) and gave us details of the firm!

At the end of the war, after his return home, he gradually sold off the six houses, but never did anything about the plot being taken away from him.

Is it to late, do you think, for the family to initiate an investigation?

Cheers

Danchaslyn
 

[Springbok]

Hi Danchaslyn,

Whilst I don't know the legal position, it might be worth your while to ask for an appointment with a Lawyer (one specializing in Wills/Trusts)at your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

I remember that you could get a 20min. consultation for Free.

Not sure if that still applies but no harm in asking.

Spring

[mafiamuma]

A lil Message for anyone who can help
can you tell me how i can find out about a bill of sale .and also get a will translated?

my grt grt grt granpa william buckley 1800 born in nantwich was a cooper and had a shop i think in the high street, he must have done pretty well as he and the wife and family moved to Stokehall Farm in cheshire..

going by his will he left all his wordly possessions to his wife mary and the kids..
the next thing i find is that wife Mary had left the stokehall and the farm to live with her sons on their farm.
i have tried to google to see if i can find out this info but no luck so far...
seeing as on the programme you guys seem tobe able to get these things relatively easy(though not all the time)
i thought i'd ask you and see if you know...where i can go .......
Stokehall was a very large estate which i believ now from the photograph i have , they have made it into flats...wht a shame and to be honest i did feel as my family had lived and worked so hard there i felt sad.but i guess its the signof the times.
if you can or anyone can help
i'd be so greatfull.thanking you in advance.
 

[Danchaslyn]

 

Hello Spring

What a great idea.................will certainly do as you suggest.

Visiting the family again to-morrow, so am sure they will be happy with that suggestion.

Thanks again

Danchaslyn
 

[Eking]

Danchaslyn

Before you make any appointments, I would have thought the best place to start with is a copy of the will to see if it states about land being held in trust.

Then to ascertain if the father 'disposed' of the land before he died.

[Danchaslyn]

Elektra

You are  SO right, go armed with the "proof".

I have the addresses of the six houses next door to the plot, which was 'comandeered', but not the address of the plot.  But, of course it will be mentioned by number or whatever, in the Father's Will.

The rellie son, who told this to us yesterday, is now to old to go and view the 10 houses on the plot, and also lives a couple of towns/villages away.

All this came about, as he suddenly starting discussing his Will and mentioned how saddened he'd been about 'losing' the plot, which had belonged to his father.

Thanks so much for your help

Danchaslyn

[violeign]

Bona Vacantia list

For some reason,  I've started to record the list each week.  Not that I think there will be anyone on there to inherit from.

Interesting to see how long some estates take to get to the list. One today from 2000 and one from 1991.

It's the duty of the executor of an estate to make sure that they explore all avenues in finding heirs (or a will) and this process can take some time.  Most of the cases that make it on to the bona vacantia list will already have been researched by at least one company, because the average person acting as executor won't be able to do the searches themselves.   Also note that the episodes now being screened in the UK are repeats of earlier series, which have been tacked on to the current series.

If this was the case why is the list published at all?

[FraserandFraser]

Cases on the list are only occasionly cases that have been previously worked, they are the very hard cases to work the TS have to give 30 years after the end of the administration it is the law.

The case from 1991 on yesterdays list has got us stuck I cant work out is if is worth any thing