Our compassionate team understand the significance of honouring and memorialising your loved ones in a meaningful way.
We are dedicated to assisting you with your needs including selecting a resting place and caring for existing memorials.
Ashes Positions
At this time, there are no new ashes interment positions available for purchase at the Cemetery.
We continue to provide interment and memorial services for those who hold an existing ashes position. If you have an existing position or are arranging an interment, our team is here to support you.
To help meet future community needs, Council is developing a landscape masterplan for the Cemetery. This plan will guide the creation of additional ashes interment opportunities within the existing cemetery footprint—respectfully designed to reflect the site's heritage and natural setting.
If you would like to be notified as new ashes interment positions become available, please register your interest.
We’ll keep you informed as the masterplan progresses and opportunities open in mid to late 2027.
You can also register your interest to provide feedback about the Masterplan via our Have your Say page.
Gravesites
There are no new gravesites for sale.
We continue to provide services for people with existing gravesites.
Owners of existing gravesites
Burial bookings need to be made through your funeral director.
The holder of the Right of Interment must authorise any use of the grave.
Gravesites can accommodate up to 3 burials (depending on ground conditions), with the first burial being at 9 feet deep.
In addition, up to 6 sets of ashes can be interred in each gravesite.
Fees
Fees apply to existing gravesites, for renovation works and new memorials.
Shaping Ferntree Gully Cemetery
Council has formed an engagement group for Ferntree Gully Cemetery. The Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Group will help shape the future direction for the cemetery.
We are inviting community members to join the Consultative Group to help guide and inform Council’s decisions for the cemetery.
Recruitment is open and community members are welcome to join or leave at any time.
Members can choose when and how much they would like to participate in engagement opportunities.
Become a member
To become a member of the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Group, follow the Cemetery project on our Have Your Say website.
View the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Group Terms of Reference.
Cemetery records
We manage a record of the deceased at the cemetery called the Register of Interred Persons.
Learn more about who is interred at the cemetery from our Register of Interred Persons – 31 December 2024.
Cemetery maps
The following maps cover areas of the cemetery:
- Map - Ferntree Gully Cemetery
- Church of England Section A
- Church of England Section B
- Church of England Section C
- Church of England Section D
- Church of England Section E
- Church of England Section G
- Foothills Lawn
- Lawn F
- Lawn Roundabout
- Lutheran Lawn and Lutheran Denominational Section
- Memorial Rose Garden
- Methodist Lawn Section
- Methodist Section A
- Methodist Section B
- Other Denominational Section
- Pioneer Section
- Presbyterian Lawn
- Presbyterian Section B
- Presbyterian Section D
- Roman Catholic Section A
- Roman Catholic Section B
- Roman Catholic Section C
- Roman Catholic Section D
- Rose Garden - Plots 1 - 73
- Rose Garden - Plots 74 - 146
- Rose Garden - Plots 147 - 220
History
The Ferntree Gully Cemetery was established in 1873 when 5 acres of Crown land were reserved as the site for a cemetery.
Many pioneers of the district are buried in the cemetery including the well-known families of Dobson, Baird and Friberg. You may recognise these names as ward names in our municipality.
The cemetery also has the honour of being the last resting place of renowned landscape artist Sir Arthur Streeton.
Knox City Council took over responsibility as Trustee of the cemetery in July 1982.
In 1984 the Governor in Council declared the Ferntree Gully Cemetery closed for the sale of new graves.
In 1999, the Council appointed the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Trust Committee to oversee the management of the cemetery.
This committee was sunsetted in 2017.
Find out more about the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Trust and its Committee.
Need help?
Email [email protected]. Please include your phone number and we come back to you as soon as possible.
Or call the Ferntree Gully Cemetery team on 9298 8000.
