Albert Edwin (Pike) Pyke (1882 - 1960)

Born 8 Dec 1882 in Marystown, Newfoundland

Husband of Miriam Jane (Billard) Pyke — married 12 Dec 1903 in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 13 Jan 1960 at age 77 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

This profile is part of the Pike Name Study.

Was a clerk, then a baker. Surname listed as "Pike" on marriage register, but as "Pyke" on death certificate.

From Clermont email:

A.E. Pyke was born and raised in Marystown, Newfoundland. A.E. and his wife arrived in North Sydney on the same boat and on the same day, unbeknownst to each other. They each rented a room and began looking for work. She was about 18, and he was a college graduate. They noticed each other passing on the street in North Sydney: she was beautiful with her long black hair, and he was smitten. They were married within the week of their arrival, although they had never met before.

His wife was the gifted baker in the family and produced bread, pies and cakes in her kitchen. Their first three sons, Cecil, Edwin and Arthur, made deliveries for her every day after school. The orders became so plentiful, A.E. had a bakery built for her in the backyard. By and by, that bakery grew too small and he commissioned a second one to be built. The bakery grew to the point of having seven bakers on every shift, three shifts a day. A.E. was not a baker per se, but rather the business man who managed the bakery. The sons all became bakers until World War II; after the war, A.E.'s son Edwin and Edwin's wife took over the bakery.

Sources

• https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1805-146&Event=marriage&ID=13377

• https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1960-1107&Event=death&ID=422973

First-hand knowledge as remembered by Marilynn Clermont via October 5, 2014 email.