"Shoe Maker" in 1861 census, living with wife and dau @ Pitt St, Southwark (St George).
Note: not one of several individuals named James Obadiah Ayton, born around the same time in England.
Sources
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James: