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Heir Hunters

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Series following the work of heir hunters

Series following the work of heir hunters, probate detectives looking for distant relatives of people who have died without making a will

Heir Hunters: Series 10 Reversions

Alison Vann

Matt Gordon

Flame Television

Heir Hunters: Series 10 Reversions: Episode 6: Houlden/Pickwell

Houlden/Pickwell

Episode 6

Episode 6: Houlden/Pickwell

Series 10 Reversions

BBC One - Heir Hunters, Series 10 Reversions, Houlden/Pickwell

Adoption, the workhouse and the stigma of illegitimacy are revealed in a man's history.

Series following the work of probate researchers. Adoption, the workhouse and the stigma of illegitimacy in the early 20th century are revealed in the history of a St Albans man.

Adoption, the workhouse and the social stigma of illegitimacy in the early 20th century are revealed in the history of a very quiet man from St Albans.  When an heir is found, he believes his grandfather was ashamed of what he was and thinks that is why he never wanted to talk about it.

In the second case, a letter from the Queen is found in a house in Kent that has been empty for four years. It belonged to a woman who was in the Women's Land Army during World War II. The heir hunters discover that her father was deaf and her mother's father was too, and that the closely knit deaf community of the late 1800s could be the reason her parents met in the first place.

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Series following the work of probate researchers. Contains revised repeats.

Series following specialist companies who compete against each other to trace heirs to unclaimed estates. Contains revised repeats.

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