>Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:42:18 -0600 >From: Marilyn Winton <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Q-R] FW: Samuel Barker of Christiana Hundred, DE >To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > >Thank you Janice, for getting in touch, and for your information. I >did not have the court records. I notice that in one entry his name >is spelled "Bercquer" and another it is "Bercker". The thought >crossed my mind that....what if....Barker was actually an >"Americanization" of his original name which has a foreign flavour, >if these other spellings carry any grain of truth with them. >French, Flemish?....perhaps this is why his background has always >been a mystery, although this is also true of many other early >English immigrants. Just something to keep in mind.... There were >many Protestant dissenters from northern Europe who came early to >this area. >Another note. I found some early records of nearby NJ mentioning a >Samuel Barker, but I believe I have eliminated this man because of >dates and movements (he went back to England and perhaps died >there).....from the possibility of being "ours". That Samuel >Barker was from Derbyshire in England and seemed to be a well-off >merchant. > >I also have Scarlett, Allen and Reynolds and Clayton families >amongst my many Quaker lines. Esther Vawter and my mother (Mildred >Haworth London) shared information on the Barkers for many years >(Mother died in 1996). >Let's keep in touch. > >Best wishes, >Marilyn L. Winton >