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Many thanks, Sue.  I can now add Mary's and Madie's exact birth date to their records.  It is strange that Mary T doesn't appear in any records after her birth, but Madie is easy to trace via census and, later a marriage to Colin C Turner.  I have Madie Jane Clayton Turner's death in Weston-Super-Mare.

With the search for Marion Martha/Edith Marion Clayton Gibson, now that I have her younger sister, Elizabeth Ann Clayton Ketterson's obituary, I know that Marion died before her as only two of Elizabeth Ann's siblings are mentioned as family (Henry living in Durban, and Isabella living in London).

Thank you again everyone who has so kindly helped with my Clayton research.

Thank you for this information.  Toyse is not a name in our family, I wonder if it is a mistranscribe?  I think that I saw somewhere quite a while ago that the T stood for 'Teresa'.  Is the record that you sent to me a death?  She and her twin, Madie Jane are on the BDM birth record (same record, same date), born August 1911, but after this date, only Madie Jane is on future records. 

I suppose the actual birth certificate would give Mary T's full first names?  I can't find a baptism for the twins either even though all of the Clayton children of every generation have always been baptised.  Another mystery.

On one family tree, there is a story that references Mary Elizabeth Fielding Hindle Gibson, Frank Gibson's first wife.  Her granddaughter, Renee Lillian, went to live with her and Renee's father, Thomas Fielding Gibson after he divorced his first wife.  Renee lived with her grandmother from 1933-1935.  On Thomas Fielding Gibson's second marriage record it states that his father is Francis C Gibson and his mother is Mary Elizabeth Fielding.  It seems as if she reverted to her birth surname of Fielding after Francis left her.  Mary Elizabeth's baptism shows the surname Hindle but no father and no father present in her life after her birth.  Her marriage states that her father is John Hindle but there is no record of his ever being in her life after her birth.

A US Social Security claim by Robert Fielding Gibson dated 1968 includes name of father, Francis C Gibson and mother Mary Elizabeth Fielding.  Her death may be recorded under the name of Fielding, some time after 1935?

I was wondering if something tragic had befallen Marion Clayton Gibson, wife of Claude Gibson, after their marriage.  She is not on the 1891 census, she doesn't appear to have lived with him. She was a domestic servant and working class, and he was gentry, so I suspect that he married her (3 years after the birth of their son) to give his son a name but they had a marriage in name only.  Sometimes, family name their children after a brother or sister who they were fond of but who came to a sad end.  Three of Marion's family named their daughters Marion.  Her brother, Henry named his daughter, Linda Marion;  her sister, Elizabeth Ann, named one of her daughters by George Parker, Ada Marion Parker;  her sister, Matilda, named one of her daughters Marion Rosina.

Thank you, everyone, for all of your ideas and tips.   

Having found Elizabeth Ann Clayton again (one of the Clayton sisters mysteries), I now have to look for Marian Martha/Edith Marion Clayton after her marriage to Claude Gibson in 1881. I have been trying to find her for many years, without success.
 
On another note, I am also looking for actual marriage certificate for their son, Francis Charles Gibson who lived in Accrington and married in Lancashire in 1899, to a Mary Elizabeth (also Elizabeth Mary) Fielding or Hindle (I suspect mother not married but John Hindle, Engineer is on the marriage certificate as her father).  I have seen this marriage certificate many years ago on the internet but I can't find it now, anywhere.  On it Francis (Frank) states that his father is Claudius Gibson, formerly in the military in South Africa, deceased.  Claude was not deceased but fighting in the Boer War at the time of his son's marriage.  Claude was taken prisoner in 1900 and sent to a camp in Ceylon.

Hello amondg,

Thank you for finding this record.  She is indeed Thomas and Ellen Clayton's daughter.  She was baptised in 1873 with her two older brothers, and younger sister, Elizabeth Ann.  I don't know why  her mother's name was not included on her birth record.