Thomas Wilson - Grange Friends Meeting, County Armagh 1736

There are copies of the Armagh Grange Quaker records in PRONI (the public record office) in Belfast. You might want to go through them to see if you can find any additional mentions of the families. The records contain details of what was discussed at their regular meetings, reprimands (for drinking alcohol, for example), expulsions, penalties for not paying their tithes and so on. Since the tithes were normally a tenth your income you can calculate what they were earning. Can make interesting reading. There are a lot of records and I would allow half a day at least to go through them. They are on microfilm. They are not on-line so a personal visit is required to view them. If you are unable to go yourself, you could employ a researcher. Researchers in the PRONI area: http://sgni.net

Births, deaths and marriages were copied to the Friends provincial office in Lisburn (which was responsible for Ulster). So those events should show up twice. Findmypast have the BDMs on their site.

Most of the Quaker congregations in Ulster were fairly small with around 10 to 15 families at most. So they all knew each other well. At that time you had to marry another Quaker, which meant they often intermarried. If you didn’t you were expelled. So there’s a fair few expulsions for “marrying out” in the records. Instead of the 2 or so witnesses you get at most other denominations' marriages, Quaker records at that time usually contain the names of everyone present.

Note that there was also another Grange Quaker meeting house in Milltown near Toome in Co. Antrim. No connection other than it had the same name. But useful to know so you don't get them mixed up. Most of the Quakers in Ireland arrived from England in the 1600s, usually for commercial reasons. For example, many of the Antrim Grange congregation were wheelwrights from Yorkshire and were needed to build and maintain water powered mills in the Milltown area.

The word Grange indicates it was land once owned by the church (Long ago. 1500s or earlier). That’s why there are dozens of Granges all over Ireland.

Researching in the 1600s and 1700s in Ireland is notoriously difficult and there are unlikely to be many other records of your families.