F. E. Pyke

Signed family name

Pyke

Signed given name

F. E.

Given address

Howe South St

Sheet number

Town/Suburb

North Dunedin

City/Region

Dunedin

Notes

Biography contributed by Katherine Blakeley

Frances Elizabeth Renwick was born about 1823 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England – the daughter of Thomas Renwick.

She married Vincent Pyke/Pike, a linen draper, in Clifton, Gloucestershire in 1846.

They had three children before the family emigrated to South Australia in August 1851 on the Candahar.

The family settled in Victoria where their daughter Frances was born, their daughter Rose appears to have died around this time.

In 1857 the family travelled back to England on the Sussex where their son Forest was born, he died in 1858.

The return to England was not a success and, in 1858, the family returned to Australia on the Swiftsure where their son Reginald was born the following year.

In 1862 Vincent was given the job of secretary and organizer of the goldfields department for the Otago Provincial Government.

The family lived at 'The Camp' at Clyde where their last two children were born, the youngest dying in infancy.

They shifted to Dunedin in 1880 and when Frances signed the suffrage petition, they were living in Howe St.

Vincent died in 1898, he is buried in the Northern Cemetery, Dunedin.

rances then moved back to Clyde to live with her daughter until her death on 6 May 1898.

She is buried with her infant son in the Clyde Cemetery. Her obituary says she 'was a woman of strong sense and of a most amiable, generous and hospitable disposition'.