Explore our records to discover details about pioneering families and loved ones resting in our cemetery. Immerse yourself in the cemetery's history through a self-guided tour, whether in person or online.

Search our Mitcham General Cemetery records

Use Chronicle, a cemetery software, to explore our comprehensive cemetery records, offering detailed insights into families and loved ones, complete with plot locations and available histories. If you have information about a cherished loved one or pioneering family that you'd like to share, please get in touch with us.

Search the records of the Mitcham General Cemetery using Chronicle

Honour your loved one by sharing memories

Share meaningful stories and memories to celebrate the lives of your loved ones by adding a Life Chronicle. For just $65 per submission you can create a Life Chronicle with stories, photos and poems with 40% of the proceeds going towards maintaining the cemetery. Life Chronicles are linked to interment records and burial locations in the Chronicle online map, accessible to everyone. Submissions, once reviewed, are available a week after submission.

You can write a Life Chronicle by searching for the name or plot number in the Mitcham General Cemetery online map. Once the interment details are open, you will see a button to “Write a Life Chronicle” with steps to follow. For a detailed guide, please visit the help centre.

Tour the Cemetery

Guided

Take a walking tour with an experienced guide through the heritage-listed Mitcham Anglican and General Cemeteries, which both opened in 1854. Visit the resting places of some of Adelaide’s earliest pioneers and hear of the stories that shaped early Mitcham village and South Australian life as we know it.

Guided walking tours of the General Cemeteries and the Mitcham Anglican Cemetery are available for community groups and schools.  We can create a tour that suits your needs and interests.

To find out more or to book call 8372 8261 or email mwinders@mitchamcouncil.sa.gov.au

Discover the history of the Mitcham General Cemetery

Self guided

You can explore our Cemetery with a self-guided walking tour using our map or Chronicle app.

Download the self guided map