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The Archives of the Mill Hill Fathers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

David Henige
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The Mill Hill Missionaries (more properly, the St. Joseph's Society for the Missions) was established in 1866 by Fr. Herbert Vaughan, later Archbishop of Westminster. The first missionary field of the society was among the blacks of the American South. However, the major missionary effort of the Mill Hill missionaries has been Africa. In 1894 the Vicariate of the Upper Nile was organized and encompassed the whole of eastern Uganda and western Kenya including Kampala and Busoga. This was divided in 1947 into the Vicariates (later dioceses) of Kampala and Tororo, and later the diocese of Jinja was. formed from Kampala. In western Kenya the Mill Hill missionaries received the Prefecture of Kavirondo in 1925 and this later was divided into the dioceses of Kisii, Kisumu, Ngong, and Kakamega.

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African Research and Documentation , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , 1980 , pp. 18 - 20
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Copyright © International African Institute 1980

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Notes

1 I wish to thank Fr. William Mol, the Mill Hill archivist, for his courtesy and hospitality in acquainting me with the contents of the archives in his charge.

2 This branch became independent as the Josephites in 1893 and maintains its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland.

3 For details on correspondence and articles published by Mill Hill missionaries see R. Streit and J. Dindinger, Bibliotheca Missionum, vols. 18 to 20.

4 Positive microfilm copies of this Journal are at the Josephite mother-house in Baltimore, while copies of the American edition (1883-1889) as well as other materials emanating from the American Josephites are on film at Mill Hill, where reading facilities are available.

5 For instance there is a 426pp manuscript by Fr. Ferdinand Walser entitled ‘Luganda proverbs and Luganda expressions'.

6 However, the diary for Budaka mission in Bukedi covers the period from 1901 to 1934*.

7 In TOR 1, for example, there is a manuscript by Fr. A. W. Hendrikson, ‘Notes on the Teso verb’ (200PP).