[Abraham Fisher (1783-1871)] Journal of trip, London Yearly Meeting, 1828

Quaker separations in the United States, J. J. Gurney. and education. Identified in the family as the journal of Abraham Fisher (1783-1871), the father of Abraham, the immigrant. Abraham, Sr., accompanied John and Sarah Grubb and William Forster in their ministries in the early 19th century. He was a corn merchant in Youghal and insurance agent for Friends Provident Institution and other companies. He and wife Jane Moor Fisher had seventeen children and were involved in a myriad of philanthropic work including famine relief. After business reversals in the late 1860s they emigrated to Wales where they died.