Lack of Birth Registration

[suttontrust]

I have at least one family I've been researching where they don't appear to have registered any of their 3 daughters, born in the 1840s.  Perhaps some people were just hostile to the whole idea.

[Jaguare]

I am finding the same problem with my husbands grandfather Timothy Henry James Brush.  According to BMD his death was registered between Oct-Dec 1954 when he was aged 52.  I have ordered his death and marriage certificates to see if I can find out any discrepancies.  The info that I have from my mother in law is sketchy, but apparently he was born in Gloucestershire and had family in Wales and Worcestershire, and looking at the some of the census' there are Brushs' living in Worcs an Gloucs.  Thing is with a curious mind and sense of intrigue I could probably come up with all sorts of ideas, and it will all be down to something simple