[FLT-bird]

Where do you think they went? There are plenty of Cavaliers who came to Virginia. British Catholics overwhelmingly supported Charles I because he was more religiously tolerant and had a Catholic wife. They sure as hell weren't about to trust the Puritan fanatic Roundheads. Where else in the world could they go they spoke the same language and had the same culture? Not New England - they too were Puritans and had close ties to the Roundheads. Where does that leave?

There aren't many answers. Maryland and Jamestown are two such answers. I know from my own family history since they WERE exactly what I described. There's a reason why they came in 1649 specifically. That was the year James I was beheaded after the Roundheads won the English Civil War. If you were of any religious persuasion in England/Wales other than a Puritan (yes even other Protestant sects), it was time to get the hell out.

[ansel12]

Same personal fantasy and ignoring all historical fact.

Catholics in British America
“There were only about 300 Catholics in Virginia at the time of the American Revolution.”
“in 1765, the Catholic minority in Maryland numbered about 20,000.”