This assumed person is merely representative of the earliest Laidmans in Bowes. Obviously no link has been determined between this person and the next known generation. Some of the earliest occurrences of the Laidman name are recorded (as variants) in Bowes in the early fourteenth century:

1 Ed III [1327]: The subsidy was paid in Boghes by ... John Ladman, 2s.;
6 Ed III [1333]: In Boghes the subsidy was paid by ... John le Ladyman, 2s. 8d.
(Marshal-General Plantagenet-Harrison, H.K.G., The History of Yorkshire, London & Aylesbury, 1879, Vol. I: The Wapentake of Gilling West, p. 331)