Catalogue of the papers of J.I. Parry

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: material relating to service in the Sudan
Language: English

John I. Parry


	c1941-c1948	C.M.S. teacher, Yambio
	c1949-c1953	Headmaster of Loka Intermediate School
	c1954-1964?	Principal, Teacher Training Centre, Yei

Arrangement

1. Personal Papers

2. Diaries

3. Photographic Material

(a) Album

(b) Slides

4. Maps

5. Museum Objects

6. Miscellanea

7. Printed Material

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 (863/7/15-18); a journey to the Gel River and the establishment of a C.M.S. station there (863/7/19-23); a description of Wau and of a visit by Douglas Newbold to Wau and comment on war rationing (863/7/24-27); the war situation and the Yambio school garden (863/7/28-34); pressure of work, illnesses affecting Europeans, and a baptism service (863/7/35-37); a visit from a Mr Miller to Loka and travel difficulties (863/7/56); a visit to Yei and the arrival of doctors from California University to study malaria, sleeping sickness, etc. (863/7/57-58); a lightning strike during a visit from Bishop Allison to Meridi (863/7/59); preparations for a visit of Bishop Allison to Yambio (863/7/60); a special communion service and comment on the lack of political awareness in the south (863/7/61); the 1951 Christmas celebrations and the success of Loka boys in entrance exams for the secondary school (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

(a) Album

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.856/2/2

Church group at Yei

SAD.856/2/3

Archdeacon Abarayama and clergy at Longomeri, Yei

SAD.856/2/4

Longomeri: Tito and two other men

SAD.856/2/5

Longomeri Primary Four

SAD.856/2/6

Welcome choir

SAD.856/2/7

Archdeacon Abarayama, Tito and Bultrus' landrover (?)

SAD.856/2/8

Archdeacon Abarayama, Margaret Ford, and two Juba pastors

SAD.856/2/9

Tito

SAD.856/2/10

Christopher Ash, Tito Ayamba and R.D. Yei (Rural Deacon?)

SAD.856/2/11

Korunerio Soma

SAD.856/2/12

Sudanese man

SAD.856/2/13

Sister Ruth and Margaret greeting patients, T.B. ward, Juba

SAD.856/2/14

Handcraft, Juba T.B. ward

SAD.856/2/15

T.B. ward Sunday service

SAD.856/2/16

Carolyn and Margaret

SAD.856/2/17

Cat

SAD.856/2/18

Provincial M.A. leader and Margaret Ford

SAD.856/2/19

View from guest house window of bookshop (?)

SAD.856/2/20

Margaret Ford

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.856/2/25

Archdeaconry at Meridi

SAD.856/2/26-28

Pastors and Church Workers conference at Juba Cathedral

SAD.856/2/22,29-30

Nyekuo and family

SAD.856/2/31

Meridi church

SAD.856/2/32

Meridi congregation

SAD.856/2/33

Lui police post

SAD.856/2/34

Sudanese woman

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.856/2/37

Baranaba Duma

SAD.856/2/38

Beggar

SAD.856/2/39

View from old C.M.S. house, Juba

SAD.856/2/40

Lainya church

SAD.856/2/41

Women and children

SAD.856/2/42

Congregation (?)

SAD.856/2/43

At the Bishop's house, Yambio

SAD.856/2/44

Two Sudanese men

SAD.856/2/45

Sudanese woman

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.856/2/50

Two Sudanese men

SAD.856/2/51

The Rev. Daniel Zimdo

SAD.856/2/52

Sudanese man

SAD.856/2/53-54

Archbishop Yeremaya at Yambio

SAD.856/2/55

Lainya crossroads

SAD.856/2/56

Soroma Mayani

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.856/2/62

Choir outside the church

SAD.856/2/64

Yambio Cathedral Choir

SAD.856/2/65

Bishop and his landrover outside Yambio Cathedral

SAD.856/2/66

Yambio Cathedral hall

SAD.856/2/67-68

Yambio area pastors

SAD.856/2/69

Yäri, former Zande driver

SAD.856/2/70

Yambio suq

SAD.856/2/71-72

Juba English Sunday School

SAD.856/2/73,75

Margaret Ford and friend

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.856/2/77

Yambio Town Church Choir

SAD.856/2/78

Outside Yei Church (C.M.S. photograph)

(b) Slides

SAD.863/7/66

1985
Notes written by J.I. Parry concerning the following slides

SAD.826/9/9-826/10/11

[c1985]
Scenes of the southern Sudan

SAD.826/9/9

Juba airport

SAD.826/9/10

Juba Central Square

SAD.826/9/11

The Nile at Juba

SAD.826/9/12

Canoe on the Nile

SAD.826/9/13

Nile steamer

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.826/9/19

Dinka village

SAD.826/9/20

In a Dinka house

SAD.826/10/1

Dry season in the southern Sudan

SAD.826/10/2-3

Dinka canoe

SAD.826/10/4

A Nilotic men's hairstyle

SAD.826/10/5-6

A river ferry

SAD.826/10/7

Women washing clothes in the river

SAD.826/10/8

Dinka women setting out to fish

SAD.826/10/9-10

Village scenes (?)

SAD.826/10/11

Nile steamer

SAD.826/10/12-826/11/13

[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.826/10/18-19

Some P.E. activity

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.826/11/7-8

Female students

SAD.826/11/9

Schoolchildren

SAD.826/11/10

A family group

SAD.826/11/11

Schoolgirls

SAD.826/11/12-13

School buildings (?)

SAD.826/11/14-826/12/7

[c1985]
Churches and missionaries

SAD.826/11/14

Women's group

SAD.826/11/15

Rumbek church

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 - 826/12/2

English missionaries

SAD.826/12/3

Missionaries and Sudanese Christians

SAD.826/12/4,7

Clergy

SAD.826/12/5

Two missionaries on the verandah of their house (?)

SAD.826/12/6

Missionary and Sudanese woman

SAD.826/12/8-826/12/10

[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 CMS 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