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elcome to the first edition of the Barcroft Times! As you know I have been working on our Family history and I felt that creating a newsletter would be a great way of sharing the present and the past with each other. Please let me know what you think, and feel free to contribute anything you wish to share. Enjoy!
Barcroft Facts
Did you know that the name
Barcroft was first found in
The
surname Barcroft is of local origin, deriving from the place where the
ancestors of this lineage lived.
One of the earliest references to the family name Barcroft dates back in
history to the year 1066.
Variants for this surname include Bearcroft and de Berecroft.
Barcroft
English
(also established in Ireland): habitational name from for example Barcroft in
Haworth, West Yorkshire, so named with Old English bere ‘barley’ + croft
‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
Dictionary of American Family Names,
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In this section
of our paper, I want to share some of our family’s favorite recipes.
This one is one that Chris would beg Aunt Barb (Dave) to make. Usually she would have to scratch her back
for an hour for this one. Barb included
this recipe in a card with Chris’s wedding gift in 1981.The back scratching
paid off for Chris.
Cherry
Cheesecake
Graham Cracker
Crust
1 ½ cup crumbs , cup Br.Sugar
¼ cup Butter
Mix
together-save ¼ cup for top. Press into Pyrex dish and bake at 350 degrees for
8 min.
Filling
Mix one small package
Cream Cheese, ½ pint of cream (whipped), and ½ tsp. Vanilla, and ½ cup icing
sugar. Pour mixture into cooled crust.
Add one can of cherry pie filling onto
cheese mixture and spread evenly.
Sprinkle top with remaining crumb mixture. Chill overnight.
Enjoy, Love Aunt
Barb
Gramp’s Corner
In this section of our paper it is time to reveal some of the many interesting facts about Grampa. Here is a story that he recently told to me….
When Grampa met Gram
One day while gramp and I
were talking, I had asked him how he met gram..
He told me that they had both been living in the “south ward” in
Did You
Know….
♥ That Barb and Dave Barcroft were childhood friends! Their backyards were very close to each other and Barb remembers going to all of Dave’s birthday parties and other events until Dave moved down to Sombra at approximately age 8. Later they met again and fell in Love.
♥ That there is a famous concert hall in
♥ That the largest
concentration of Barcroft families is in Ohio USA
♥ That Ron
Barcroft will soon be starting a new business venture. Good luck to Ron!
♥ That Dave Barcroft
has become a carpenter extordinaire!
♥ That Jerry Barcroft will be retiring in June.
Who’s This ?
See if you can guess who
these people are! See answers in next
edition.
