Hi, I am related to William Clayton of Fellows Morton and Clayton. He was my Great Grandfather, my Grandfather was Alfred Clayton who managed Paddington Basin to begin with. He then married and moved to Hayes, Middlesex, later he moves to Ealing where he lived until his death in 1970, at the age of 95.
He was one of many children, about 13 I think. Many were boys who went into the family businesses. The ones who worked for FMC managed various arms of the canal system, down to London.
William Clayton married Elizabeth Banfield the daughter of a Devonshire farmer. Elizabeth had a brother James, he married William Clayton's sister Sophia. James and Sophia Banfield owned an Ironmongers in Tenbury Wells, it still exists in the Banfield family!