Frances Seychelles I

Frances Seychelles (1546-1561), was the daughter of Nicholas Seychelles I and Katherine Seychelles I. She was a member of the Seychelles Dynasty and the eighth of thirteen children. Her siblings include: Nicholas Seychelles II (1532-1568), John Seychelles III (1538-1557), Joan Abell (1540-1585) Cuthbert Seychelles (1543-1550), James Seychelles II (1548-1559), Elinor Seychelles (1548-1565), Leonard Seychelles (1550-1584), and Katherine "Kat" Seychelles II (1552-1593).

Life

Frances was born in London, England as the eighth (but really fifth) child of Nicholas and Katherine Seychelles. She was the second long-living daughter of the duo and thus got a good amount of attention from her mother and Joan. When she was four, her older brother Cuthbert died, traumatizing her. Despite this, she became good friends with her younger brother, James II. They were among the quietest of the Seychelles children. She enjoyed drawing, sewing and reading. She had a hard time seeing and needed glasses, but this was unknown to her parents who just thought her not to be trying hard enough to see certain things. Frances was closest with her younger siblings James, Elinor, Leonard, and Kat. She didn't see much of her older brother's who were 14 and 8 years older than her. She got along well enough with her sister Joan though. While James was her best friend growing up, Elinor was also among her favorite siblings, and the trio was often do things together. They often did what was considered more girly sorts of things, which caused their father to remind James on several occasions not to act like that. Until she was six, her mother homeschooled her and her siblings. Unfortunately, at that same age, after the birth of Kat, her mother passed away. Following this, her brother Nicholas took time off work to help look after her, James, Elinor, Leonard and baby Kat. Her siblings Joan and John helped. After a six month or so period, her father remarried, and she gained a step-mother: Sally Klineston. Sally and she hit it off, and Frances quickly grew to see her as a mother. Though she still had memories of Katherine, she grew to become fonder of Sally who considered Frances and her siblings as her own children. Sally and Joan together took over home-schooling and James wasn't reprimanded as often - if at all - by their grief-stricken father for playing with the girls.