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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Norma K, post: 13129186, member: 115174&quot;]Thomas Hill Laidlaw 1846-1915 (NOT 1951), was a decorator and painter in Hawick, Scotland.&nbsp; He had a son Thomas Hill Laidlaw 1881-1906 who we presumed died in Australia.&nbsp; The family has only the record of his date of death, not the location that was written down by his father.&nbsp; Thomas Hill Laidlaw Sr also sketched pen and ink drawings and watercolor paintings and was well known in the local area of Hawick during his time.&nbsp; I have several of his paintings and sketches, that signature is not his normal way of signing his work. Thomas, the father, also sketched many local Hawick area buildings and scenery for a book about the Scotts of Buccleuch. This signature looks more like the signature of his son which I only have one of his works, a watercolor, that was probably painted when he was a young boy.&nbsp; This signature is similar to that signature.&nbsp; Thomas Hill Laidlaw, the father, had a brother-in-law, John Pow who immigrated to New Zealand and it is possible that Thomas Hill Laidlaw (the son) went to New Zealand in search of a better life.&nbsp; I am a related to both Thomas Hill Laidlaw and his son.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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