On the history of the cemetery in Čeřeniště (in the cadastral area of Babiny I), the following information was found in the State District Archive in Litoměřice, Lovosice, in September 2024.
In Heinrich Ankert's article "Tschersing," published in 1937 in the journal Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatforschung in Leitmeritz (pp. 8-13), it is stated that a cemetery was built in Čeřeniště in the spring of 1922 and the first burial took place there in July 1922.
In the so-called Memorial Book of the parish of Církvice (kept in the archives of the Bishopric of Litoměřice), the following notes on the cemetery are recorded.
p. 142 - entry for the year 1923, where in the statistics of births, marriages, and deaths, the following is stated: "The municipality of Čeřeniště established a communal cemetery in Babina A in 1922. From now on, the dead from Čeřeniště will be buried by the parish priest from Proboštov. Since the road to Čeřeniště is extremely difficult, especially in winter, the local parish priest (note: from Církvice) gave his consent, as they wished (note: in Čeřeniště)."
p. 148 - entry for 1928
"The most significant event of this year is undoubtedly that the parish of Čeřeniště was removed from here on November 1, 1928, and incorporated into Proboštov. The history of this event is as follows: For a long time, the church had been striving for its own pastorate. For this purpose, a church building association was founded there more than 25 years ago. Canon Adolf Šeblický, with great effort, raised a considerable sum of 68,000 crowns (Austrian), which would have been enough to build the church before the war, which was to begin in 1915. Unfortunately, when World War I broke out in 1914, this plan was postponed. The collected money was invested in Austrian war bonds. The worst consequence was that after the collapse of the monarchy, there was a great devaluation of money. The Czechoslovak Republic, one of the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, exchanged domestic Austrian and Hungarian war bonds for Czechoslovak government securities bearing 3 percent interest at 3/4 of their nominal value. A state bond was thus underwritten. Under a new law passed in 1924, war bonds for which no records were kept were now to be honored by the state up to a certain amount. Nothing has happened yet for the Čeřeniště building association, and it continues to live in hope. The replacement papers will only have a market value of 26,000 CZK, and there is little talk about the already purchased building site for the new church, which will remain unused for a long time."
As the burial of the dead from Čeřeniště in the cemetery in Církvice in winter was connected with great difficulties due to bad roads, the village of Čeřeniště built its own cemetery in 1922, not on its own land, although suitable places were available, but on a plot of land in Babiny, essentially within the perimeter of the church in Proboštov (note: Babiny I belonged to the parish in Proboštov). This was common in other places where the parish buried the dead from their parish in different cemeteries, e.g., the parish priest from Svádovo buried the dead from Nová Ves in the cemetery in Novosedlice, and the parish priest from Františkovy Lázně buried the dead from Horní Lomany in the cemetery in Františkovy Lázně."
An interesting comparison of the cemetery's condition is provided by a photograph from a burial in the 1970s, in which the mortuary building is visible at the left edge. The central cemetery cross is also different, and its base is lower today.
