Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley
Margaret Hope was born in 1867 in Lancashire, England – the daughter of Walter Hope and Mary Livsey.
She emigrated to Otago with her family in 1875 on the Gareloch and they settled in North Otago.
Margaret married John Park, a blacksmith, in 1889 and they had eight children, one who died in infancy.
When Margaret signed the suffrage petition the family were living at Duntroon.
In 1905 John was declared insolvent.
A couple of years later the family appears to have emigrated to South Africa.
Sources
BDM online NZ https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/
Family Search https://www.familysearch.org
Free BDM https://www.freebmd.org.uk
GRO England https://www.gro.gov.uk
Otago Nominal Index http://marvin.otago.ac.nz
Papers Past https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Waitaki District Council https://www.waitaki.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries