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Clayton-Bell. - Thus writes my London correspondent :- A fashionable wedding took place in London on Thursday, April 21st, when S.S. Clayton, of Maryborough (Q.), was united to Miss Amy Bell, of Bedford, England. Dr. Donald Frazer [Fraser], of Dorset Square, tied the young couple up at about 2 o'clock p. m., and they immediately left by train for St. Pancras, en route for the Highlands. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Clayton will finish up their honeymoon with ten days in Italy and will leave by the S.S. Fotosi from Naples for Queensland. Queensland Figaro and Punch, 4 June 1887.^2,4

The news from England of the death of Mr. Sidney Stuart Clayton, which occurred at Clarens, Switzerland, where he had been living of late years, on 3rd November, will be received by many friends and acquaintances in this town and district with feelings of deep regret. The deceased gentleman, who was 62 years of age at the time of his death was born at Farnborough Rectory, Hants, England, and came out to Queensland about 1870, returning home again about 1892, the last eight or ten years being spent in Maryborough. While here he resided at Enfield, Tinana, where his brother, Mr. R.B.B. Clayton, had lived before him, and he always took an active part in our social affairs. He also interested himself very much in Oddfellowship. He was a brother of the late Rev. J.B. Clayton, of Gonora, Tinana. He leaves a wife and one daughter, the latter born in Maryborough. Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser, 11 December 1913.⁶