Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Parry, John Idris
Dates of creation: 1941-1985
Extent: 0.5 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: Parry, John Idris
Language:
English
(1916 - 2000)
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| c1941-c1948 | C.M.S. teacher, Yambio |
| c1949-c1953 | Headmaster of Loka Intermediate School |
| c1954-1964? | Principal, Teacher Training Centre, Yei |
1. Personal Papers
2. Diaries
3. Photographic Material
(a) Album
(b) Slides
4. Maps
5. Museum Objects
6. Miscellanea
7. Printed Material
Presented by Parry, 1982-1993
Catalogue
1. Personal Papers
SAD.863/7/1-62
1941-1951 [predominantly 1941-1943]
Letters home from J.I. Parry from Yambio and elsewhere in the southern Sudan. Subjects covered include descriptions of travel to the Sudan and whilst on leave; a visit to a leper colony at Lui and the missionary conference (SAD.863/7/15-18); a
journey to the Gel River and the establishment of a C.M.S. station there (SAD.863/7/19-23); a description of Wau and of a visit by Douglas Newbold to Wau and comment on war rationing (SAD.863/7/24-27); the war situation and the Yambio school garden
(SAD.863/7/28-34); pressure of work, illnesses affecting Europeans, and a baptism service (SAD.863/7/35-37); a visit from a Mr Miller to Loka and travel difficulties (SAD.863/7/56); a visit to Yei and the arrival of doctors from California
University to study malaria, sleeping sickness, etc. (SAD.863/7/57-58); a lightning strike during a visit from Bishop Allison to Meridi (SAD.863/7/59); preparations for a visit of Bishop Allison to Yambio (SAD.863/7/60); a special communion service
and comment on the lack of political awareness in the south (SAD.863/7/61); the 1951 Christmas celebrations and the success of Loka boys in entrance exams for the secondary school (SAD.863/7/62)
2. Diaries
SAD.725/1/1-3
1955 Sep 14
Detailed diary of events at Yei during the Police mutiny, from Thursday 18 Aug to Tuesday 6 Sep
3. Photographic Material
SAD.856/2/1-78
1982 Oct-Dec
A Church Event in Juba and Christian communities in Equatoria:
SAD.856/2/1
Archdeacon and clergy at Yei
SAD.856/2/3
Archdeacon Abarayama and clergy at Longomeri, Yei
SAD.856/2/4
Longomeri: Tito and two other men
SAD.856/2/7
Archdeacon Abarayama, Tito and Bultrus' Landrover (?)
SAD.856/2/8
Archdeacon Abarayama, Margaret Ford, and two Juba pastors
SAD.856/2/10
Christopher Ash, Tito Ayamba and R.D. Yei (Rural Deacon?)
SAD.856/2/13
Sister Ruth and Margaret greeting patients, T.B. ward, Juba
SAD.856/2/14
Handcraft, Juba T.B. ward
SAD.856/2/18
Provincial M.A. leader and Margaret Ford
SAD.856/2/19
View from guest house window of bookshop (?)
SAD.856/2/21
Archdeacon Enoka, Seme (?) and the pastor of Badw Olo (?)
SAD.856/2/23
Women carrying large parcels on their heads
SAD.856/2/24
View of the Meridi Institute
SAD.856/2/26-28
Pastors and Church Workers conference at Juba Cathedral
SAD.856/2/35
Archdeacon Enosa and his women church workers
SAD.856/2/36
Edward Tuko and Edward Togo at the Meridi Institute
SAD.856/2/39
View from old C.M.S. house, Juba
SAD.856/2/43
At the Bishop's house, Yambio
SAD.856/2/46
Sudanese man and J.I. Parry (?)
SAD.856/2/47
Sudanese pastor and a second Sudanese man
SAD.856/2/48
The Rev. Erikana Arama and the Very Rev. Yotoma Girisini
SAD.856/2/49
Archdeacon Enoka and Archdeacon Andarea
SAD.856/2/53-54
Archbishop Yeremaya at Yambio
SAD.856/2/57
Pastor Zeburuna and Canon Amosa Rakpi
SAD.856/2/58
Pastor Zeburuna and Bishop Yeremaya
SAD.856/2/59
Choir and congregation after the confirmation service at Yambio
SAD.856/2/60
Pastor Zeburuna and family
SAD.856/2/61,63
Yambio Town Church women workers
SAD.856/2/65
Bishop and his landrover outside Yambio Cathedral
SAD.856/2/69
Yäri, former Zande driver
SAD.856/2/71-72
Juba English Sunday School
SAD.856/2/74
Toyota Land Cruiser journeying from Juba to Yambio
SAD.856/2/76
Michael Amosa with wife and son, and Richard Noti
SAD.856/2/78
Outside Yei Church (C.M.S. photograph)
SAD.863/7/66
1985
Notes written by J.I. Parry concerning the following slides
SAD.826/9/9-SAD.826/10/11
[c1985]
Scenes of the southern Sudan
SAD.826/9/14-16
A main road in a southern province
SAD.826/9/17
A market under a mango tree grove
SAD.826/9/18
Flowering trees at Meridi
SAD.826/10/1
Dry season in the southern Sudan
SAD.826/10/4
A Nilotic men's hairstyle
SAD.826/10/7
Women washing clothes in the river
SAD.826/10/8
Dinka women setting out to fish
SAD.826/10/12-SAD.826/11/13
[c1985]
Schools and students
SAD.826/10/12-15
Female Teacher Training students doing handiwork
SAD.826/10/16
Female student drying cooking vessels
SAD.826/10/17
Female student carrying water
SAD.826/10/20
Female students outside Yei church (?)
SAD.826/11/1-3
Male students of the same Teacher Training College
SAD.826/11/4-5
Amoru village school used for teaching practice
SAD.826/11/6
Female students playing netball
SAD.826/11/14-SAD.826/12/7
[c1985]
Churches and missionaries
SAD.826/11/16
Canon Ezra on the steps of the old Bishop Gwynne College chapel
SAD.826/11/17
Loka Secondary School Bullen Memorial Chapel
SAD.826/11/18-SAD.826/12/2
SAD.826/12/3
Missionaries and Sudanese Christians
SAD.826/12/5
Two missionaries on the verandah of their house (?)
SAD.826/12/6
Missionary and Sudanese woman
SAD.826/12/8-SAD.826/12/10
[c1985]
Scenes of northern Sudan
SAD.826/12/8-9
Festival at the Mahdi's tomb
SAD.826/12/10
All Saints Cathedral, Khartoum
4. Maps
SAD.876/12/1
1921 Dec
Annotated map of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan showing the position of C.M.S. mission stations and the route of a journey from Port Sudan to Yambio in Equatoria
scale: 1:3,000,000
Size: 96 x 73 cm
5. Museum Objects
SAD.876/12/2
[ca. 1930-1960]
Watercolour of Tonj police post and prison by G. Riley
Size: 15.5 x 17.5 cm
6. Miscellanea
SAD.876/12/3
[1969]
Broadsheet issued by the government after the 25th May revolution entitled
“Policy statement on the Southern question”
SAD.863/7/63
1982 Jul 1
Poster displaying the Regional Ministers and members of the High Executive Council
SAD.863/7/64
1982 Oct
Poster advertising the Church Event at Juba
SAD.863/7/65
n.d.
Juba Model School pictorial no.1: photographs of the model school with comment
7. Printed material
Separated printed material now in Durham University Library
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue
Addison, F., A short guide to the Museum of Antiquities, Gordon College, Khartoum (2nd ed, 1934)
Newbold, D., A desert odyssey of a thousand miles (repr. Sudan Notes and Records v.7) (1924)
Newbold, D., Notes (repr. Sudan Notes and Records v.7) (1924)
Newbold, D., The White Nuba of Jebel Haraza, and white races of North Africa (repr. Sudan Notes and Records v.7) (1924)
Stevenson, R.C., Old Khartoum, 1821-1885 (repr. Sudan Notes and Records v.47) (1966)
Sudan, Antiquities Service: Report for the year 1939
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in the southern Sudan during August, 1955
Sudan, Ministry of National Guidance: The 25th May revolution [1969?]
Sudan Notes and Records v.1 n.1, v.13 n.1 (1918, 1930)
Sudan Wildlife and Sport v.1 nos.1-4, v.2 nos.1-4, v.3 n.1, v.4 n.2 (1949-1953)
The Sudan: a record of progress, 1898-1947 [1947?]
The Sudan: the road ahead [1945?]
Trimingham, J.S., The Christian Church in post-war Sudan [1949?]
