Welcome...

Welcome to the website of the Friends of Cheltenham and Regional Cemeteries Inc.

Copeland unveilingPictured 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!

Caulfield Railway DisasterThe 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...

150th LogoOn 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.