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Re: "Heir Hunters" #2
« Reply #126 on: Sunday 15 November 09 19:29 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: bartman on Saturday 14 November 09 22:36 GMT (UK)
Hi Oldwrinkle,
This is rather an old thread so i hope you're still watching!
I used to work with your Uncle Charlie (or Carl, as I knew him) in the 70s and 80s, and in fact lodged for a while in his house in Ivydale Road before I moved out of London and got married.
I decided to register here so that i could do a bit of research, and also so that I could send you a PM with what little I can tell you about Carl to help you with your research. However, I can't seem to find a way to send a PM!!!
From information in the "help" section, it appears that I can't send a PM until I have posted a few times in the forum, so this is the first!
Perhaps a way round that would be for you to PM me, and I can reply to that!
I can't promise very much information, but it all helps I suppose. Let me know.

Keith
Hiya Keith,
 Thank you for your reply. Due to the fact that I have just moved and lost the interweb connection for some time, I have only just seen your thread.  I will have to post in a different part of the forum to enable me to PM you.  I look forward to chatting with you.

Regards

Steve

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« Reply #127 on: Monday 16 November 09 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Hi Bartman, I would be interested in what you know. I am already in contact with Oldwrinkle via email. Carl as you call him was my fathers brother.
Ronc

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« Reply #128 on: Monday 16 November 09 20:50 GMT (UK) »
Ronc,
Oldwrinkle has sent me a PM with his email address, so I have sent him an email containing all the information I can think of, and I suggested to him he could forward that to you. Hope that's OK.

Keith

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« Reply #129 on: Tuesday 12 January 10 14:39 GMT (UK) »
Just to let you know we are in the 2nd week of repeats of HH3 at the moment. HH4 starts next week, and should be on for 4 weeks although they are still in the off line edit at the moment I heard that they were filming yesterday aswell !

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« Reply #130 on: Sunday 17 May 20 10:42 BST (UK) »
I just found out that I am related to someone who was on the Heir Hunters show years ago as an unclaimed estate.

I discovered this person in my family tree pretty recently, and then today found out about the estate being unclaimed.  I am really curious why genealogy work on this estate either didn't turn up our side of the family, or is it that we're too distantly related to qualify?

I'd love to find the episode of Heir Hunters that this estate was on and try and find out more about it, if only to satisfy my curiosity.  Can anyone help while I try and read back through thread #1 and check YouTube for old Heir Hunters shows?

I've found an episode list on the BBC, but I can't find this estate listed, it's for John David Roberts, son of the English cubist artist, William Roberts.

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« Reply #131 on: Sunday 17 May 20 11:03 BST (UK) »
Do you know what your relationship is to John David Roberts?  I believe they usually start with the paternal and maternal lines first.  I think they only spread out as it were, if they don't get anywhere with the immediate lines.
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« Reply #132 on: Sunday 17 May 20 11:24 BST (UK) »
There is this episode in series 5 (2014)
The estate of David Hugh Roberts, worth two million pounds, had eluded the heir hunters for five years, but there is fresh hope. ... David Hugh John Roberts died in a modest, first-floor flat.


On the other hand there is a bona Vacantia listing

https://www.unclaimedestates.com/estates/john-david-roberts-669566. D.o.b 1919. Died 1995

Are they two different men?

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« Reply #133 on: Sunday 17 May 20 11:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Girl Guide on Sunday 17 May 20 11:03 BST (UK)
Do you know what your relationship is to John David Roberts?  I believe they usually start with the paternal and maternal lines first.  I think they only spread out as it were, if they don't get anywhere with the immediate lines.

John David was his parents only son.

His father's paternal-side aunt is my 2nd great grandmother.

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« Reply #134 on: Sunday 17 May 20 11:28 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Mckha489 on Sunday 17 May 20 11:24 BST (UK)
There is this episode in series 5 (2014)
The estate of David Hugh Roberts, worth two million pounds, had eluded the heir hunters for five years, but there is fresh hope. ... David Hugh John Roberts died in a modest, first-floor flat.


On the other hand there is a bona Vacantia listing

https://www.unclaimedestates.com/estates/john-david-roberts-669566. D.o.b 1919. Died 1995

Are they two different men?

I just scrolled through the info for the Hugh David Roberts episode, and he doesn't seem to be John David.  The Unclaimed estates on BV that you found there is the John David I am referring to.

Here's the BBC article I found today about the unclaimed estate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33705441

So, if I am understanding correctly, it's the lineage of the first cousins of the deceased that counts as a potential beneficiary, and I would be descended from a 2nd cousin.  That's a shame, but I'd still like to learn more about what genealogists did discover about his family tree as the artist William Roberts was a first cousin to my great grandmother, they all lived in Hackney, and I'd love to find out more about them all.
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