• 1816: Her father returns to Scotland. Frances, who was then a small child, also travelled to Scotland.
• 1826: Her father dies. £3,000 was set aside for her in her father’s will.
• 1859: Her brother, John, moves to Cardiff. It is likely that Frances moved with him, although there is no evidence they were living in the town until the 1861 census.
• 1865: The creation of The Cardiff Institute for the Blind, in which Frances and her brother were very prominent.
• 1868: A building at Longcross Street, off Newport Road becomes a building for the blind, where they learnt skills to work.
• 1876: A difficult period financially, help coming from the women of the area.
• 1877: Her brother, John, dies. Frances leaves Cardiff following her brother’s death.
• 1878: Frances is living at Rosebank, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire.
• 1879: A fund is set up in the name of her brother John, the Shand Memorial Fund was reported, in 1879, to have paid a mortgage of £500 on the Institute’s buildings.
• 1886: At the annual meeting of the Cardiff Institute for the Blind, it was announced that Frances had left £1,000 to the Institute through the Shand Memorial Fund.
• 1984: The Cardiff Institute for the Blind was renamed Shand House in acknowledgement of this contribution.