Welcome...
Welcome to the website of the Friends of Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Inc.
Pictured left is
Vice-Consul Stephen from the US Consul General Melbourne with a family
descendant at
the unveiling of the restored grave of US Civil War veteran John Henry
Smith held at the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery on Sunday 9 Jun 2013.
Just another example of the work we do to research,
restore and remember.
Check out our
album for more photos.
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).
Did you know?
That the office at the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery was built in 1915 to the design of Solon Peck at a cost of £210? The contractors were Caudwell Bros. of Mentone. Both the architect and the contractors are buried in the Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery.
New Book!
The Melbourne
Benevolent Asylum: Haven of Rest is our fourth book published in
the Remembering Them series.
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.
