I would like a copy of your letter. I had a
ggrandfather named John who said his grandfather changed the name from Barkus to
Barcus, but that it was Barkhurst before that.It may not be a close relation, but one
never knows and this fits in with time frame
for the name change. My Barcus connections
were Pennsylvania/Dutch with primarily Lutheran and Bretheran affiliations going back to early Dutch colonists then onto England and then to England, France or Italy
before that, as leather guildsman in the middle ages.