Gembrook is a town 54 km (34 mi) from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. • Postcode 3783 • Local Government Area Cardinia Shire • State electorate Gembrook • Federal Division La Trobe.

This newer cemetery location in Blackwood Lane was founded in 1918 and is the second cemetery for Gembrook. The first, older one was established on Boyd Road in 1879 but proved too far for the towns people to walk so they opened one closer to the village. Some of the listings do not carry a headstone memorial as present, since the removal. They remain listed as people, who were once burried in Gembrook, under a previous database for the old location.

Land for the Old Gembrook Cemetery was set aside on July 14, 1879 and on July 28 the following Trustees were appointed Talworth Benjamin Backhouse, Henry James, Alexander Crichton, John Walters and Charles Brache.

This Cemetery is part of the Australian Cemeteries Project.

Gembrook derived its name from the property owned by early European settler, Albert Le Souef who was the first official settler in the area when he purchased 129 hectares (320 acres) of land in July 1873. He called this property Gembrook Park. The original Gembrook settlement was south of today’s town and the community that grew around the Ure familys Silver Wells property was to the north of today's town. However, the commercial focus of the town shifted to around the Gembrook Railway Station when it opened as part of the Puffing Billy railway line. The Fern Tree Gully to Gembrook Railway, as it was officially known, was a narrow gauge railway of 2 feet, six inches and opened December 19, 1900.

Find A Grave Memorial# 147440898

Bench donated by Jackie Nicholls Family

Address
14-24 Blackwood Ln
Gembrook, 3783, Victoria
Australia

Address: Blackwood Lane Gembrook Vic 3783
Latitude: -37.956960
Longitude: 145.554633
GPS: 37 57.41753, 145 33.27759

The grave plaques for the Garden of Cherished Memories are named as 'GCM' prior to Plot location.