), Wix was in Halifax from 1826 to 1830, although he traveled to England in 1828, where he recovered from typhus, married and completed his M.A..[5] He became Archdeacon of Newfoundland in 1830, arriving in St. John's on June 18 of that year.
"[9] Aside from a few short periods working as a curate in the London area, Wix spent the rest of his life as an invalid.
He and his wife lived in different places, moving to their son's parish, the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Swanmore, Ryde on the Isle of Wight shortly before Edward Wix died in 1866.
In 1848 the Bishop of Newfoundland, sailing on the Hawk, visited the Venison Islands (Labrador) and made the following entry into his journal.
I found, to my surprise, that this man had been married, and two of his children baptized, in the year 1831, by Archdeacon Wix, or, as poor old Stevens said, "by the head-man of St.
It would, I think, be a gratification to that indefatigable pioneer of the Church, to know that I read a chapter to the poor man and his family from the Testament presented seventeen years ago.
The book is carefully preserved, and is not likely to be worn out by use, as none of the family can read.Again in 1849 I should have mentioned that at Battle Harbour, and St. Francis Harbour, no Clergyman of our Church had ever been seen before; but it appeared that Archdeacon Wix had called at the Venison Islands seventeen years ago—or, as an old fisherman told me, "the head man of St.
I had the pleasure of reading a chapter in a poor fisherman's hut, from a Testament given so long ago by Mr. Wix, and bearing his name.