Joseph Dixon¹

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• (Child) Birth*: Joseph Dixon was born in 1806 at Coalisland, Co Tyrone, Ireland, .²
• He was the son of Somebody Dixon.¹
• (Deceased) Death*: Joseph Dixon died on 29 April 1866 at Armagh, Co Armagh, Ireland, .²

• (Witness) Anecdote forWeb: He was a witness Cathreen says:
  I have been looking at my father’s side again. Quite a few years since I looked at it.
  He was born in Blantyre Lanarkshire. His grandparents were Sarah McKenna and James McGhie (Magee). I have discovered that Sarah’s mother was Sarah Dixon married to John McKenna. Her brother was Joseph Dixon who went to Maynooth in Dublin. It was the training college for priests. He worked for the pope before being appointed Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. The Dixons were all R,C, Joseph was responsible for the R,C, cathedral being built in Armagh. Sarah’s sister married outside the church also. The Dixons were all born in Ireland. James McGhie was a staunch Scottsh Presbyterian. There was a terrible split up in the Dixon family at this time.
  
  I found the 1851 census of the McKenna family in Scotland . It told me that John McKenna had gone to Scotland from Ireland with his 3 children. No mention of their mother—Sarah Dixon. Presume she had died in Ireland. One of the McKenna children was Sarah who later married James McGhie. I eventually found the record of the death of John McKenna in 1858 aged 48. His death was caused by the passage of a cart that ran over his body. I was even more surprised to see that the informant for the information on the death certificate to be none other than James McGhie (Magee) son in law. .I was even more surprised to find that where the place for the parents of the deceased was written Unknown by the Informant!!!!! I cannot imagine that James’s wife did not know who her grandparents were!!!! I now have all the certificates that give me all the informtion I needed to know that this is indeed in my ancestry. When I got the death record of the death of James’s wife, Sarah, her mother is Sarah Dixon. James and Sarah had 13 children. The 1st was my grandfather, Henry. A lot of the children of Sarah and James have Dixon as a middle name. One son was named Joseph Dixon and he died aged 7.¹
• Biography*: He Joseph Dixon (bishop)
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  Joseph Dixon (born at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, in 1806; died at Armagh, 29 April 1866) was an Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh.
  
  Life
  Having entered Maynooth College at the age of sixteen he was ordained priest in 1829. He was initially appointed as Junior Dean of the College, rising to Senior Dean in 1833. In 1834 he was appointed to the chair of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew, a post he occupied for the next eighteen years. His class had an average of 200 students, amongst whom was John McEvilly, afterwards Archbishop of Tuam.
  
  As Primate of Armagh he held an important synod in 1854, at which all the bishops of the northern province assisted with their theologians. In the same year he began completing the unfinished cathedral of Armagh and almost accomplished the work before his death. In 1856 he formed the diocesan chapter consisting of thirteen members.
  
  During his incumbency he brought some religious congregations into the diocese, viz. the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (1855), who opened a house in Drogheda; the Marist Fathers (1851) who opened a college and novitiate in Dundalk, and the Vincentian Fathers who were placed in charge of the ecclesiastical seminary the same year. The primate was a defender of the Holy See and at a public meeting in Drogheda denounced Napoleon III for complicity in the acts of the Italian revolutionists. His speech and subsequent letter to the Freeman's Journal created a sensation and the emperor made them a subject of complaint to Pope Pius IX. Dixon was the organizer of the Irish Brigade in the papal service.
  
  Works
  Dixon's professorship was signalized by his "Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures", a work praised by Cardinal Wiseman. The first edition appeared in 1852 and a second in 1875.
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  Attribution
  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Joseph Dixon". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton.
  
  Catholic Church titles
  Preceded by
  Paul Cullen      Archbishop of Armagh
  and Primate of All Ireland
  1852–1866      Succeeded by
  Michael Kieran.^1,2
• Ordination*: He was ordained in 1829.²
• Appointment*: He was appointed Senior Dean in 1833.²
• Appointment: He was appointed Chair of Sacred Scripture and Hebrew in 1834.²

Education

• Education*: Joseph Dixon was educated in 1822 at Maynooth College, Dublin, Ireland, .²