« Reply #18 on: Thursday 01 November 18 15:28 GMT (UK) »
I have an ancestor born in 1856 and one in 1852/1853 where I cannot for the life of me find a birth reg but have their baptisms. The 1856 one was born around the same time as a namesake cousin. Their father's were brothers. Also they were both born in the same village in Co Durham. One got registered and one didn't, so somehow the registrar missed one of the births of the 2 namesake cousins. I sent off for the birth cert of the registered one thinking it was my ancestor but it was his namesake cousin who died as a child in January 1860 aged 3. Both were baptised in April 1856 on the same day.
Some of the other children born to the 2 brothers never had their birth registered either. Some births just went unregistered, simple.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain