Hi, >From the experience in my own sets of families over the counties of Hereford, Somerset, Gloucester, Wilts and parts of Wales I would say it was extremely common to use the name of a dead child for the next one of the same sex. I have one example, where a girl, Alice, died and three successive girls were born, all named Alice, all but the last died. Quite different in more recent times, when it seems that a dead child's name is not used again. Of course today we don't use names in a familial succession context that is so useful to genealogists. Which Cooks are you looking at in Hawkesbury? I have many. Brian Morgan