The City of Hamilton, New Zealand celebrates 125 years and my Great Grandfather James Mansfield Gelling, born 1 February 1836, arrived in New Zealand in 1864 aged 26, was a well educated man, I saw the first recorded minutes last week when I had a private meeting with the Mayor and one of the councillors, everything was recorded in the minute book by James with a very fluent style of handwriting and a very good command of the English language, I picked up a titbit using Google that King William College was notified of his death, but need help and suggestions on gathering with some ones help in the Isle of Man more information on his time as a student at KWC?

It would be nice to get this together in this important year in the celebrations Hamilton is having this year and the role a well educateted Manxman played in this Cities early days.

Regards Peter