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Very common in my family too in previous generations that a new baby was given the same name as their dead sibling. There is one case in my family with my 2x great grandfather Henry though. Three years after Henry’s birth came a little brother John. When John was two he had according to his death certificate diarrhoea and vomiting which lasted three days. On the second day both Henry and John were christened as the parents must have realised their younger son wouldn’t survive. Henry was christened John Henry the same day as John was christened. Throughout his life then Henry continued to use a mixture of John, Henry and Harry.

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The second unusual one in my family was two sisters born around a year apart. The first daughter was named Elizabeth and when the second daughter was born they decided to name her Elizabeth too and changed their first daughter's name to Annie. Both girls survived to adulthood so we have never been able to fathom that one.

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