Our History Over 150 Years of Providing Sound Advice & Professional Care

New interactive website launched

Water discovered on Mars

Theo J. Nelson celebrates 60 years in the funeral industry

Head Office & Operations Centre opens in Port Melbourne

Nelson Bros on Facebook

New Rolls Royce Phantoms added to fleet

Nelson Bros Launches new website

Nelson Bros celebrates 150th Anniversary

Adrian Nelson made Paul Harris Fellow

Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister

Population of Australia reaches 20,091,504

Purchase of Bathurst Lonergan Funerals in Kooyong Road, Elsternwick

Adrian Nelson joins Nelson Bros

Olympic Games in Sydney

Open funeral home in Heaths Road, Hoppers Crossing

Williamstown Funeral Home moves to historic rifle range armory

Princess Diana dies in Paris, France

First Nelson Bros website is launched

John Howard elected Prime Minister

Nelson Bros wins Pursuit of Excellence Award for the third consecutive year and receive Emeritus Status

Nelson Bros wins Pursuit of Excellence Award from NFDA

Nelson Mandela released from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years behind bars

Theo J. Nelson made Paul Harris Fellow

Theo J. Nelson made fellow of the British Institute of Embalmers

Bereavement Resource Centre opens in Ferguson Street, Williamstown

Priscilla Nelson joins Nelson Bros

Crocodile Dundee released in Australia

T. Robert Nelson joins Nelson Bros

Theo W. Nelson Dies

Nelson Bros purchase H. Evens & Sons in Ballarat

Theo J. Nelson is President of the Australian Funeral Directors Association

New funeral home at 7 Droop Street, Footscray opens

Sydney Opera House opens

Nelson Bros ceases production of coffins

Apollo 11 lands on the moon

New funeral home opened in Deveonshire Road, Sunshine

The Beatles tour Australia

Australia enters the Vietnam War

James A. Nelson dies

Theo W. Nelson is President of Australian Funeral Directors Associaton

Elvis moves to Graceland

Olympic Games in Melbourne

Theo J. Nelson joins Nelson Bros

Australian troops sent to the Korean War

James A. Nelson is President of Australian Funeral Directors Association

Foundation Day is renamed Australia Day

WWII ends

Howard Florey develops penicillin

Footscray Funeral Home moves to Droop Street

James A. Nelson is Mayor of Williamstown

Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

Wall Street crashes

James A. Nelson opens funeral home in Victoria Street Footscray

Norman Nelson dies

Australian Parliament first - Canberra

Vegemite is produced

Theo W. Nelson opens funeral home in Douglas Parade, Williamstown

Norman Nelson continues to operate Linton Funeral Home

Airline Qantas is founded

WWI ends

James Nelson dies

Theo W. Nelson and Norman Nelson change name to "Nelson Bros"

Myer Emporium founded

Commonwealth of Australia is born

Barton becomes the first Prime Minister

James Nelson Captain of Linton Fire Brigade

First Modern Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece

Robert Nelson dies

The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated

Mark Twain Published Adventures

Many Chinese burials in Linton during Gold Rush

Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

Business expanded to include ironmongery and "associated requirements"

Suez Canal opens, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea

Robert Nelson marries Mary Ann Dawe

Melbourne Zoo opens

Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species

Robert Simeon Nelson starts business as carpenter, cabinet-maker and undertaker in Linton

The Age is first published

Robert Simeon Nelson arrives in Australia from New York on board the Epaminondas