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Barring and cuckoo can be considered the same for genetics purposes--the difference seems to be in how tidy the white barring is. But they both use the same barring gene on the same black background. For barring (or cuckoo), it's probably more convenient if you use a barred rooster, who can...

Yes. The daughters will be true breeding for barred (cross them to their father for 100% barred offspring that will all breed true.) The sons will have one copy of the not-barred gene from their mother, so if you breed from them you will get both barred and not-barred offspring.

I'd probably put the partridge hen with the double-laced rooster, and the black hen with the barred rooster, because they're already closer to those colors. That would leave the white hen to go with the single laced rooster (first generation chicks might be all-white or might not, but crossing...

Yes, that should work very well.

For white bars on black chickens, it's fairly easy because Extended Black is dominant, and Barring is also dominant. Because Barring is on the Z (sex) chromosome, you will get different results from a barred father vs. a barred mother. If you get a barred hen (Cuckoo Marans, Barred Rock...