This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZYVBAEB/442.1 Message Board Post: The given name Ray or Raymond was rare prior to 1900 and there's only one Raymond Waugh born early enough to have bought the gun in 1894; he was in Philadelphia and doesn't appear in the census after 1880. After 1900 there's a proliferation of Raymond Waughs and 25 of them appear in the 1930 census.