Australia
They went to Australia in 1851, first South Australia and then the gold diggings in Victoria where he spent two years as a miner around Forest Creek, Castlemaine and Fryer's Creek Bendigo and opened a store at Forest Creek. He was elected to represent Castlemaine in the Victorian Legislative Council from November 1855 to March 1856 and Castlemaine Boroughs in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1856 to February 1857 and again from October 1859 and June 1862.
In 1857 Pyke was appointed emigration agent in England in conjunction with the Right Hon. Hugh Childers.
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