Margaret PERCEVAL was the daughter of John PERCEVAL and Frances Margaret HOPEKIRK
There is a Madge PERCEVAL christened on 16 June 1883, the son of John and Margaret PERCEVAL, in the parish of St. Mary, Acton, Borough of Ealing, County of Middlesex. Madge is a common nickname for Margaret. The father's occupation is listed as "agent". The record also lists where the family was living. We need help reading the writing on the record.
Like her younger Frances, Margaret also worked a governess in the early 20th century. Margaret was in German East Prussia near what is now Russian Kaliningrad.
Margaret married Lawrence HOON, a Londoner who had emigrated to South Africa and became a stockbroker on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
Margaret and Lawrence had one child:
Christine HOON, born in 1912
While Christine was very young, Margaret and Lawrence divorced and Margaret renounced her married surname and began using the surname of her mother, HOPEKIRK. For the rest of her life, until she passed away in 1956, she was known as "Mrs. HOPEKIRK."
Christine served in the British Forces during World War II and eventually married Adam Kolczynski, a Polish Air Force fighter pilot based in Britain. After the war they moved again to South Africa where they started a family. Because of the political situation in South Africa, they returned to Britain in 1960.
Adam passed away in 1972 and Christine passed away in 2002 at the age of 90 years. In her later years she reviewed her family history and wrote a memoir of her life entitled "My Grandmother's Lace Handkerchiefs", referring to Frances Margaret Hopekirk.
This page was last updated on 24 July 2010
