Albert Horton McKay

Mr. Albert McKay, Licensed Interpreter and Managing Law Clerk to Mr. C. A. de Lautour, was born at Port Waikato on the 14th of February, 1852. He was educated under the late Archdeacon Maunsell at the Kohanga Mission Station, near Port Waikato. In 1877 Mr. McKay removed to Napier, where he was engaged as compositor on the Maori newspaper “Te Wananga,” until towards the end of 1879, when he left and entered the office of Mr. W. L. Rees, as Licensed Interpreter and law clerk, in Napier until 1882. In that year he removed to Gisborne, where he still remained in the same employment until 1885, but in 1886 he entered the Native Land Court Office at Gisborne as Government Interpreter and Clerk of the Court, and held the position till 1888. Since that year he has occupied his present position in Mr. de Lautour's office. Mr. McKay has been a member of the Order of Rechabites since 1894, and is attached to the Gisborne Tent. He was married, in 1890, to Cecelia Kathleen, a daughter of Mr. William Greening, of Mahia, Hawke's Bay, and has two daughters and one son. (He eventually had a total of 9 children).Source: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc02Cycl-t1-body1-d3-...