I not sure if we will have a connect here but all my family tree Claytons are from Tonge/Salford/ Manchester starting with:
Thomas Clayton b.1840 m.Sarah ?
children :
John Samuel Clayton b.1873 died 1927 (my gggrandfather)
m.Amelia Welsh 1902
William James Clayton b.1863(no trace of him since 1881 census)
Lucy Clayton b.1869 in Tonge Lancs married Joseph Robert Hartley 1889.
Walter Clayton b.1871 in Tonge Lancs (no trace)
Edmund Clayton b.1878 in Tonge Lancs (no trace)
I then have plenty of info on descendents of John Samuel Clayton.