>car/motor bike accident and died at Hendon where he is buried. > >Althea paid for his funeral and a double grave. In 1941 when his will >(approximately £120) was administrated, Althea did not claim in and it went into >Government coffers, and they won't give it back, I tried. If Althea was not married to Claude, then she had, strictly, no legal claim on the estate, which is why she didn't claim. Only his legal wife (your nan) could have claimed, and maybe she didn't fancy the undoubted legal hassle in doing it. Uncliamed, it was forfeit as if he had died leaving no legal heirs. After a lapse of years, the money is, to all intents and purposes, gone, since it would cost huge amounts to even try to get it. Far more than the £120. > Nor was Althea buried >in the double plot. It remains empty. > >Claude was my grandfather and in the late 1920s/early 1930s (in Luton/Bedford) >he used to drive a truck up and down outside his house with a redhead as >passenger, just to stir up nan. Rotten old devil. >An even longer shot - say about 1,000,000 to one is that her surname could have >been Gentel. Do any births registered to Underwood have 'Gentle etc' as surname of mother? This detail is entered from 1912. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society