• Title
  Item 08: Tapes 8-9 William Wood, Bill Wood and Norman Wood interview by Anne Whitehead, 12 May 1982
• Call number
  MLOH 890/8-9
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  12 May 1982
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9653573
• Physical Description
  2 audiocassettes (approximately 3 hrs.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  William (Bill or Guillermo) Wood Jr. Known in the 1980s as the ‘Patriarch of Cosme”. Born in Surry Hills, Sydney and six months old when his family travelled to Paraguay in 1895, he was the eldest of the eight children of pioneers William and Lillian Wood. His father, William Sr., had been Secretary of the General Labourers’ Union at Bourke and was the “Little Billy Woods” [sic] of two Henry Lawson stories. Bill/Guillermo grew up at Colonia Cosme, worked in the timber business, enlisted for the British Army in WWI and was posted to Gallipoli where he met Australians in large numbers for the first time. He married Mabel Apthorpe, daughter of British recruits to Cosme colony, Leonard and Laura Apthorpe.
• Scope and Content
  This is an interview with Guillermo Wood at his home in Asuncion 12 May 1982. He discusses his parents, how they met and came to Paraguay, his childhood, creatures of the monte and dances at Cosme, reading friends and about Paraguayan women
• Access Conditions
  
  Master only. For access to this oral history collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales courtesy of Anne Whitehead
• General note
  
  Tape 8 Side A transcript pages 225-238 and Side B 238-254; Tape 9 Side A transcript pages 255-259 and Side B transcript pages 259-265
  Transcript available at MLMSS 12032/Box 1
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wood, William, 1895-
  Wood, Norman, 1899-
  
• Subject
  Wood, William, 1895---Interviews.
  Wood, Norman, 1899---Interviews.
  Cosme Co-operative Colony (Paraguay).
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21162756

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