If a person dies in Harlow and no arrangements are made to organise a funeral, we will arrange a cremation. This is part of our public health duties under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984.
We have a legal right to reclaim funeral costs and will seek to recover these from the deceased's estate where possible.
We will refer the estate to the Treasury Solicitor if, after we have deducted the cost of the funeral and our associated cost, all of the following apply:
- the remaining estate is over £500
- there is no evidence of a valid will
- there is no known next of kin
Not all details, such as addresses and estate value, will be disclosed.
This is because they are exempt under Section 31 (1) (a) or Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Although the council may hold information, we do not hold it in our own right - we hold it on behalf of the Treasury Solicitors' department.
Some details of the estate of those persons who have died have been passed onto the Government Legal Department and can be accessed at the Treasury Solicitor's list of unclaimed estates
We will not disclose address details into the public domain where they relate to deceased’s empty properties as the property is likely to be unoccupied and might still contain the deceased's personal papers and effects.
We do not believe it is in the public interest to disclose information about empty properties before Treasury Solicitors have made a full and thorough securing of the estate's assets.
Giving out the names of the deceased, taken with other information easily available, such as the electoral roll or telephone directory entry, would make identifying properties fairly easy.
Information about any unclaimed estates is available from the Treasury Solicitor's list of unclaimed estates
For more information, read our public health funeral policy (pdf)
List of funerals
Table
| Name | Date of birth | Date of death | Date of funeral | Next of kin located | Referred to Treasury Solicitor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aubrey Decross-Gonzalez | 10 Jul 1938 | 6 Jan 2015 | 29 Jan 2015 | Yes | No |
| Paul Stifman | 20 Feb 1949 | 8 Feb 2015 | 11 Mar 2015 | Yes | No |
| Joyce Reeve | 1 Oct 1926 | 10 Feb 2015 | 23 Mar 2015 | Yes | No |
| Nicholas Long | 31 Jan 1954 | 4 Feb 2015 | 9 Mar 2015 | Yes | No |
| John Martin | 27 Apr 1946 | 14 Feb 2015 | 25 Mar 2015 | Yes | No |
| Colin Williams | 14 Mar 1937 | 26 Feb 2015 | 20 Mar 2015 | No | No |
| Frederick Woodcock | 4 Jan 1931 | 17 Jan 2015 | 18 Feb 2015 | Yes | No |
| Leonard Walker | 28 May 1950 | 29 Jan 2015 | 2 Mar 2015 | Yes | No |
| Robert Haymer | 7 Mar 1938 | 2 Feb 2015 | 16 Mar 2015 | No | Yes |
| Rosemarie Ireland | 1 Sep 1940 | 4 Mar 2015 | 1 May 2015 | Yes | No |
| Charles Morris | 13 Jun 1928 | 30 Mar 2015 | 11 May 2015 | Yes | No |
| Michelle Ashley | 24 Dec 1949 | 10 Apr 2015 | 12 May 2015 | Yes | No |
| Thomas Roberts | 8 Jul 1935 | 9 Apr 2015 | 19 May 2015 | Yes | No |
| Joyce Pritchard | 29 Nov 1928 | 27 Apr 2015 | 29 May 2015 | Yes | No |
| Sharon Fitzgibbon | 9 Aug 1966 | 17 May 2015 | 9 Jun 2015 | Yes | No |
| May Gaskell | 9 May 1935 | 13 May 2015 | 17 Jun 2015 | Yes | No |
| George Crump | 26 Apr 1947 | 12 Jun 2015 | 21 Jul 2015 | Yes | No |
| Harriet Curtis | 1 Sep 1926 | 30 Jun 2015 | 23 Jul 2015 | Yes | No |
| Kenneth Henry Miller | 20 Jun 1939 | 7 Aug 2015 | 1 Sep 2015 | Yes | No |
| Terrence Heal | 7 Jan 1940 | 18 Aug 2015 | 2 Oct 2015 | Yes | No |
| Adam Peter Howes | 3 Sep 1968 | 10 Dec 2015 | 13 Jan 2015 | No | No |
| Kim Armani | 19 Sep 1964 | 26 Nov 2015 | 18 Jan 2016 | Yes | No |
| John Bull | 10 Oct 1944 | 6 Dec 2015 | 19 Jan 2016 | Yes | No |
| Norman Leonard Gordon Benson | 16 May 1958 | 20 Dec 2015 | 26 Jan 2016 | Yes | No |
| John Anderson | 26 Nov 1950 | 23 Jan 2016 | 7 Mar 2016 | Yes | No |
| Andrew Steven George | 8 Dec 1970 | 29 Jan 2016 | 9 Mar 2016 | Yes | No |
| Norman Benson | 19 Sep 1932 | 2 Mar 2016 | 21 Mar 2016 | Yes | No |
| Timothy Judge | 23 Jan 1954 | 23 Feb 2016 | 29 Mar 2016 | Yes | No |
| John Raymond Palmer | 28 Sep 1933 | 9 Mar 2016 | 24 Apr 2016 | Yes | No |
| Janice Mary Greengrass | 22 Aug 1953 | 19 May 2016 | 20 Jun 2016 | No | No |
| June Mattsea | 29 May 1931 | 14 Aug 2016 | 6 Sep 2016 | No | No |
| Florence Patricia Jones | 16 Aug 1923 | 27 Feb 2016 | 21 Sep 2016 | Yes | No |
| Archibald Gordon Caulfield | 8 Feb 1954 | 2 Sep 2016 | 4 Nov 2016 | Yes | No |
| John William Fewing | 3 Aug 1956 | 26 Oct 2016 | 21 Nov 2016 | No | Yes |
| Ernest Victor Pounder | 20 Nov 1944 | 1 Nov 2016 | 19 Dec 2016 | Yes | No |
| Christopher Falconer | 6 Sep 1967 | 20 Nov 2016 | 28 Dec 2016 | Yes | No |
| Victor Chivers | 11 Dec 1939 | 7 Nov 2016 | 2 Dec 2016 | Yes | No |
| Denise Mary Dunne | 25 Aug 1941 | 9 Dec 2016 | 18 Jan 2017 | Yes | No |
| Juri Tatarintseva | 19 Oct 1980 | 27 Jan 2017 | 20 Feb 2017 | Yes | No |
| William Duguid | 8 May 1951 | 13 Jan 2015 | 17 Feb 2017 | No | No |
| Kirk Lagdon | 26 Dec 1962 | 25 May 2017 | 31 Jul 2017 | Yes | No |
| Katherine Clare Darvill | 14 Aug 1955 | 14 Sep 2017 | 25 Sep 2017 | No | Yes |
| Martin Mears | 20 Aug 1947 | 30 Aug 2017 | 6 Oct 2017 | No | No |
| Michael Brewster | 10 Mar 1948 | 2 Oct 2017 | 6 Nov 2017 | No | Yes |
| Paul Groom | 15 Apr 1953 | 6 Oct 2017 | 7 Oct 2017 | No | Yes |
| June Parker | 18 Jun 1944 | 3 Nov 2017 | 6 Dec 2017 | No | No |
| Nicholas Rolfe | 18 Aug 1962 | 10 Nov 2017 | 13 Dec 2017 | No | No |
| Ian Hubbard | 29 Nov 1945 | 27 Nov 2017 | 18 Dec 2017 | No | No |
| Richard Pert | 19 Jul 1943 | 23 Dec 2017 | 26 Jan 2018 | No | No |
| David Campbell | 25 Nov 1944 | 2 Feb 2018 | 6 Mar 2018 | No | No |
| Dennis Coltman | 18 Apr 1925 | 14 Feb 2018 | 9 Apr 2018 | No | No |
| Hamid Farahi Alamdari | 21 Mar 1962 | 1 Mar 2018 | 4 May 2018 | Yes | No |
| Matthew Camp | 28 Jun 1968 | 26 Feb 2018 | 9 May 2018 | No | No |
| Gilbert Nevin McNeilly | 28 Apr 1939 | 2 Mar 2018 | 10 May 2018 | Yes | No |
| Benham Motekhasses | 1 Oct 1957 | 6 Apr 2018 | 16 May 2018 | Yes | No |
| Kenneth Brangan | 25 Mar 1946 | 06 Apr 2018 | 17 May 2018 | No | Yes |
| Kenneth John Green | 13 Oct 1943 | 11 May 2018 | 15 Jun 2018 | No | Yes |
| Justine Romana Finch | 11 Sep 1925 | 13 May 2018 | 18 Jun 2018 | No | Yes |
| Martin Eric Primett | 9 Sep 1952 | 2 May 2018 | 20 Jun 2018 | No | No |
| Keith Blackwell | 29 Mar 1964 | 10 Jul 2018 | 30 Jul 2018 | No | No |
| Pamela Moles | 5 Mar 1933 | 26 Jun 2018 | 31 Jul 2018 | Yes | No |
| Keith Robert Stephens | 14 Sep 1944 | 11 Jul 2018 | 16 Aug 2018 | Yes | No |
| Walter Morris | 23 Nov 1932 | 22 Aug 2018 | 21 Sep 2018 | No | Yes |
| Geoffrey William Packham | 20 Jan 1950 | 15 Oct 2018 | 21 Nov 2018 | No | Yes |
| Nicholas Ferguson | 11 Nov 1950 | 29 Nov 2018 | 18 Dec 2018 | No | No |
| Olive Ulla | 11 Feb 1933 | 5 Dec 2018 | 23 Jan 2019 | No | Yes |
| Dennis Rimington | 24 Sep 1933 | 10 Jan 2019 | 6 Feb 2019 | No | No |
| Tina Marie Ann Rowland | 25 Nov 1960 | 10 Mar 2019 | 4 Apr 2019 | Yes | No |
| Grant Slee | 6 Sep 1957 | 23 Mar 2019 | 30 Sep 2019 | Yes | No |
| Michael Folley | 27 Mar 1952 | 6 Mar 2019 | 8 Apr 2019 | No | Yes |
| Stephen Parsons | 7 Apr 1953 | 7 Feb 2019 | 6 Mar 2019 | Yes | No |
| Vincent Donnelly | 17 Dec 1958 | 30 Jan 2019 | 14 May 2019 | Yes | No |
| Zoltan Kemenesi | 12 Apr 1935 | 24 Jul 2019 | 28 Aug 2019 | No | Yes |
| David John Warick | 4 Dec 1958 | 20 Aug 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Yes | No |
| Patricia Spicer | 16 Apr 1949 | 29 Oct 2019 | 25 Nov 2019 | Yes | No |
| Paul Barnes | 9 Dec 1953 | 17 Nov 2019 | 5 Dec 2019 | Yes | No |
| Stephen John Coy | 14 May 1954 | 8 Jan 2020 | 17 Feb 2020 | Yes | No |
| Melvyn Henry Putland | 19 May 1944 | 28 Jan 2020 | 4 Mar 2020 | Yes | No |
| Carla Vicini Ricca | 14 Apr 1936 | 10 Feb 2020 | 16 Mar 2020 | Yes | No |
| Aileen Joyce Hutchinson | 20 May 1954 | 1 Feb 2020 | 23 Mar 2020 | Yes | No |
| Brian Cyril Keith Patnell | 24 Aug 1953 | 11 Mar 2020 | 17 Apr 2020 | Yes | No |
| Lesley Valleen Morgan | 25 Jan 1952 | 19 Feb 2020 | 17 Apr 2020 | Yes | No |
| Margaret Deards | 20 Oct 1955 | 24 Mar 2020 | 21 Apr 2020 | Yes | No |
| Margaret Dillingham | 13 Jul 1930 | 30 Mar 2020 | 22 Apr 2020 | Yes | No |
| George Elliott | 13 Oct 1930 | 7 Feb 2020 | 24 Apr 2020 | Yes | No |
| Anthony Norton | 6 Feb 1940 | 30 Apr 2020 | 14 May 2020 | No | No |
| James Munday | 28 Dec 1946 | 6 May 2020 | 28 May 2020 | No | No |
| Leslie John Edwards | 2 Feb 1948 | 8 May 2020 | 1 Jun 2020 | Yes | No |
| Pawel Oberlan | 18 Jun 1976 | 21 Apr 2020 | 2 Jun 2020 | Yes | No |
| Dhillon Singh | 11 Dec 1959 | 17 Apr 2020 | 11 Jun 2020 | Yes | No |
| Aminat Abdoullah | 7 May 1955 | 7 Apr 2020 | 30 Jun 2020 | Yes | No |
| Philip Meager | 1 Jan 1954 | 9 Jun 2020 | 3 Jul 2020 | Yes | No |
| Carol Brookes | 29 Mar 1955 | 2 Jun 2020 | 8 Jul 2020 | Yes | No |
| Moira Sakkas | 25 Aug 1952 | 21 Aug 2020 | 22 Sep 2020 | Yes | No |
| Paul Michael Taylor | 30 Dec 1966 | 6 Oct 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 | Yes | No |
| Neil Peter Collins | 1 Mar 1957 | 14 Oct 2020 | 11 Nov 2020 | No | No |
| Linda Grove | 4 May 1951 | 11 Dec 2020 | 13 Jan 2021 | Yes | No |
| Rodney Charvey | 1 Jun 1970 | 10 Dec 2020 | 14 Jan 2021 | No | No |
| Lacey-Leigh Saggers (formally known as Susan Saggers) | 19 May 1965 | 17 Dec 2020 | 18 Jan 2021 | Yes | No |
| Leonard Hoy | 3 May 1958 | 17 Dec 2020 | 20 Jan 2021 | No | No |
| Kevin Morton | 28 Mar 1969 | 25 Dec 2020 | 21 Jan 2021 | No | No |
| Norman Thompson | 9 May 1936 | 14 Jan 2021 | 9 Feb 2021 | No | No |
| Edna Muriel Ellison | 16 May 1937 | 16 Jan 2021 | 11 Feb 2021 | Yes | No |
| Chi Thanh Mach | 6 Sep 1974 | 27 Jan 2021 | 16 Mar 2021 | No | No |
| Oleska Wintoniuk | 17 Jul 1923 | 10 Mar 2021 | 6 May 2021 | No | No |
| Thomas Lyndsey | 24 Aug 1931 | 15 Mar 2021 | 21 May 2021 | No | No |
| Leslie Dimsdale | 24 May 1933 | 14 Apr 2021 | 10 May 2021 | No | No |
| Oluwasweun Joseph Olopade | 10 Sep 1940 | 20 May 2021 | 25 Jun 2021 | Yes | No |
| Robin John Fricker | 24 Feb 1948 | 22 Jul 2021 | 31 Aug 2021 | Yes | No |
| Robert Stevens | 28 Jun 1926 | 16 Aug 2021 | 16 Sep 2021 | Yes | No |
| Nicholas Robin Spenser Chapman | 15 Mar 1940 | 24 Aug 2021 | 28 Sep 2021 | Yes | No |
| Brendan Brack | 16 Oct 1945 | 11 Sep 2021 | 7 Oct 2021 | No | No |
| Derek Cavey | 20 Jun 1951 | 21 Oct 2021 | 18 Nov 2021 | No | No |
| Hung Chung | 22 Jun 1935 | 28 Dec 2021 | 19 Jan 2022 | Yes | No |
| Marie Hammond | 14 Jul 1966 | 23 Dec 2021 | 7 Feb 2022 | Yes | No |
| James Burrell | 25 Dec 1936 | 22 Jan 2022 | 14 Feb 2022 | No | No |
| Michael Cunningham | 31 Dec 1946 | 22 Jan 2022 | 17 Feb 2022 | No | No |
| Eileen Duffy | 25 Aug 1951 | 25 Jan 2022 | 21 Feb 2022 | Yes | No |
| Maurice Ames | 2 Sep 1937 | 30 Dec 2021 | 4 Mar 2022 | No | Yes |
| William Bird | 30 Jul 1954 | 3 Feb 2022 | 18 Mar 2022 | Yes | No |
| Carl David Baldwin | 22 Jan 1984 | 12 Dec 2021 | 31 Mar 2022 | Yes | No |
| Joan Stevens | 15 Jun 1927 | 8 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2022 | Yes | No |
| Michael Kensey | 22 Jun 1941 | 21 Mar 2022 | 19 Apr 2022 | No | No |
| Patricia Trustrom | 8 Nov 1952 | 19 Apr 2022 | 6 Jun 2022 | No | No |
| Frederick Sinclair | 19 Feb 1953 | 13 May 2022 | 7 Jun 2022 | Yes | No |
| Michael Christopher McHugh | 20 Mar 1947 | 3 Jun 2022 | 24 Jun 2022 | No | No |
| Jacqueline Donna Louise Phaure | 25 Oct 1967 | 28 Jul 2022 | 10 Aug 2022 | Yes | No |
| Debra D’Arcy | 20 Feb 1961 | 14 Jun 2022 | 19 Aug 2022 | Yes | No |
| Tomasz Brzozko | 22 Jul 1962 | 12 Jul 2022 | 4 Aug 2022 | Yes | No |
| John Garrett | 8 Mar 1949 | 10 Jul 2022 | 2 Sep 2022 | Yes | No |
| Reece Brown | 21 Dec 1992 | 24 Jun 2022 | 30 Aug 2022 | Yes | No |
| Edward Gant | 2 Mar 1931 | 9 Aug 2022 | 6 Sep 2022 | No | No |
| Lewis Carey | 21 May 1993 | 13 Aug 2022 | 4 Oct 2022 | Yes | No |
| Grace Dorothy Ashman | 25 Apr 1932 | 12 Sep 2022 | 6 Oct 2022 | Yes | No |
| Keith Money | 11 Mar 1953 | 21 Nov 2022 | 29 Dec 2022 | Yes | No |
| Jean Steel | 23 Dec 1943 | 30 Nov 2022 | 28 Dec 2022 | No | No |
| Darrell Thomas | 27 Jun 44 | 28 Nov 22 | 10 Jan 2023 | No | Yes |
| Virginijus Skikas | 4 Nov 1961 | 6 Dec 2022 | 13 Feb 2023 | No | No |
| Stephen Hughes | 4 Apr 1955 | 6 Dec 2022 | 17 Jan 2023 | Yes | No |
| Ivan Omer | 6 Oct 1960 | 20 Dec 2022 | 19 Jan 2023 | Yes | No |
| Janet Godfrey | 21 Sep 1955 | 4 Jan 2023 | 3 Feb 2023 | No | No |
| John Barber | 22 Jan 1950 | 14 Feb 2023 | 27 Mar 2023 | Yes | No |
| David Piper | 24 Dec 1942 | 3 Mar 2023 | 28 Mar 2023 | No | No |
| William Munday | 7 Jul 1945 | 2 Apr 2023 | 3 May 2023 | Yes | No |
| Alan Donovan | 4 Sep 1960 | 23 Mar 2023 | 4 May 2023 | No | No |
| Alberts Ivanisins | 17 Apr 1970 | 10 Apr 2023 | 9 May 2023 | No | No |
| William Teale | 28 Feb 1953 | 31 May 2023 | 10 Jul 2023 | Yes | Yes |
| Yoshimi Umeda | 17 Jun 1961 | 2 Jun 2023 | 11 Jul 2023 | No | Yes |
| Christopher David Higgins | 23 Feb 1960 | 6 Jul 2023 | 31 Jul 2023 | Yes | No |
| Jeanette Webb | 12 Mar 1963 | 23 Jul 2023 | 9 Aug 2023 | Yes | No |
| Diane Attewill | 15 Jun 1955 | 1 Sep 2023 | 26 Sep 2023 | Yes | No |
| Alan Russell | 24 Jun 1943 | 16 Sep 2023 | 9 Oct 2023 | Yes | No |
| Dennis Cornwell | 9 Jun 1956 | 4 Oct 2023 | 26 Oct 2023 | Yes | No |
| David Boyd | 27 Mar 1954 | 10 Oct 2023 | 13 Nov 2023 | Yes | No |
| Adrian Jones | 22 Jan 1966 | 21 Oct 2023 | 24 Nov 2023 | Yes | No |
| John Wright | 18 Oct 1943 | 24 Jun 2023 | 27 Nov 2023 | Yes | No |
| Anthony Dando | 28 Jan 1964 | 21 Aug 2023 | 28 Nov 2023 | Yes | No |
| Rui da Costa | 14 May 1951 | 8 Nov 2023 | 8 Dec 2023 | Yes | No |
| Carol Hyde | 16 Mar 1942 | 8 Sep 2023 | 14 Dec 2023 | Yes | No |
| William Morrissey | 12 May 1943 | 11 Feb 2024 | 5 Mar 2024 | Yes | No |
| Susan Clucas | 27 Jul 1964 | 1 Feb 2024 | 12 Mar 2024 | Yes | No |
| Ralph Stevenson Peak | 17 Mar 1949 | 9 Feb 2024 | 20 Mar 2024 | Yes | No |
| Terence Howarth | 21 Feb 1957 | 27 Jan 2024 | 26 Mar 2024 | No | No |
| Gregory Cullen | 22 May 1938 | 23 Feb 2024 | 16 Apr 2024 | No | Yes |
| Michael John Buck | 8 Mar 1948 | 27 Mar 2024 | 30 Apr 2024 | No | Yes |
| Claire Nickerson | 4 Jul 1944 | 27 May 2024 | 11 Jul 2024 | No | Yes |
| Tony Irons | 12 Feb 1964 | 4 Aug 2024 | 28 Aug 2024 | Yes | No |
| Charles Burnard Webb | 26 Jun 1943 | 13 Jul 2024 | 29 Aug 2024 | Yes | No |
| Stephen Brooks | 15 May 1963 | 1 Aug 2024 | 30 Aug 2024 | Yes | No |