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Baxter MacKendrick Thompson Gray

Baxter - after James K

MacKendrick - after his great, great, great, grandfather Henderson. (MacKendrick also means son of Kender, or Henderson. You see) Passed down from his grandfather Stephen MackKendrick and father Miles Kendrick, Thompson.

Thompson - after his dad, grandfather and great grandfather, Thompson.

Gray - after The Gray, The Gray and The Gray* and especially after Captain Gray Edwards from The Spirits Within.

Captain Gray Edwards

Ezra William Thompson Gray

Ezra - after Ezra in the song by David Weinstein. Also after, Ezra the coolerest hipster in Williamsburg at the time of his birth. And after Ezra Jack Keats, author and illustrator.

William - asfter Williamsburg where he was born. And Williams his mothers, mothers, mothers maiden name. And of course..

Thompson Gray - for the same reasons as for Baxter.

Ezra Jack Keats

Noah Finlay Thompson Gray

Noah - after, well Noah. May he rescue us all from the coming flood.

Finlay - after his uncle Finlay.

Thompson Gray - for the same reasons as Ezra and Baxter.

Noah

* NB Even though none of us explicitly share a bloodline with the clan gray its a virtual mathematical certainty - given our heritage - that we have clan Gray blood in at least some aspect of our past - see the mathematics of geometrical growth vs the population of Scotland in 1600.