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It is interesting. It's ironic in places like South Carolina. South Carolina was settled by Irish Catholics, Scots-Irish protestants (Presbyterians), German Lutherans, and British Anglicans (primarily in the low country). Many Irish Catholics didn't have a priest running around, especially in the piedmont and on over toward York or Spartanburg. In the early days away from the coast, it was wilderness where settlers lived on large plots of land. There weren't many churches and even fewer Catholic churches, as a consequence of the internal structure of the Roman Catholic Church. That does not mean that there weren't a good measure of Catholics. Most folks didn't go to church back then as pickings were few and often far away. In some situations, even Scots-Irish were unwelcome in protestant churches. Often Scots-Irish would arrive at a church service half in the bag. We might consider them among the first Americans to "drink and drive." Many Scots-Irish wanted to dance, socialize, drink, and tell stories... during church, much like it is today in Irmo or Macbee. :wink2: Church was then, as it often is today, a social event, but even more so.
A Roman Catholic head count of records of former residents of South Carolina would be inaccurate. There were more than we know.
