Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) is the daughter of Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury. 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), daughter of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margaret Embury m. 1760 Paul Heck in Ireland and they had seven children of which four lived to adulthood and died. 17 Aug. 1804 Augusta Township Upper Canada.

In normal circumstances, the individual that is the subject of this investigation was either an active participant in an important incident or presented a distinctive proposition or statement that was recorded. Barbara Heck, on the other hand, never left in writing or written letters. The proof of items as her date of marriage is simply secondary. No primary source exists that can be used to reconstruct Barbara Heck's motives, or her actions in her entire life. Yet she's been a hero in the early period of Methodism in North America. The biographer's role is to delineate and justify the myth and, if it is possible, to identify the real person enshrined in the myth.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. The development of Methodism within the United States has now indisputably placed the humble Name of Barbara Heck first on the listing of women's names in the history of the church in the New World. The magnitude of her record must chiefly consist of the naming of her deserving name made from the history of the cause whom her name is identified more than from the history of her own lives. Barbara Heck, who was at the time of her birth, a key figure in the establishment of Methodism both in America and Canada she is one of those women famous for her trend that an established institution or movement can be celebrated for its founding to increase its perception of continuity and history.