Welcome...
Welcome to the website of the Friends of Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Inc.
Pictured left is Eddie
McGuire, AM President of the Collingwood Football Club who unveiled the
restored grave of Ernest William Copeland (1868-1947), a project
facilitated by the Friends.
Just another example of the work we do to research,
restore and remember.
The Friends of Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Inc. covers two historic burial grounds in Melbourne's south-east - Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery (Old Cheltenham Cemetery) (1864) and Cheltenham Memorial Park (New Cheltenham Cemetery) (1933).
Forthcoming Tour
Our next tour will be Hidden Gems, Odds & Ends at the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery (Charman Road) on 24 June 2012 at 11.00am. On this tour we visit some of the hidden gems and odds and ends buried at the Cemetery. Check out our other tours scheduled for 2012. More...
New Book!
The Caulfield
Railway Disaster: Carnage & Courage is our third book published in
the Remembering Them series that was released on 4 December
2011. It details those associated
with the single most devasting event to affect the south-east.
More...
150th Anniversary...
On 5 August 1862, a small parcel
of land measuring 2 acres and 2 roods was reserved for the site of a
public cemetery "for Mordialloc and South Moorabbin".
This is earliest known instance of the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery which
opened on 3 Oct 1864 though the first interment did not take place until
the following March.
