Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in the town of Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) and daughter of Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle is the son of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She married Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. They had 7 children from which four survived into childhood.

The person who is the subject of the biography usually a person who has played a key role in things that have left lasting effects on society or has made distinctive ideas and plans, that are recorded in a certain method. Barbara Heck left neither letters and statements. Actually, the only evidence we have regarding the date of Barbara Heck's marriage comes from second-hand sources. It's difficult to discern the motivations behind Barbara Heck's behavior throughout her life from the primary sources. In spite of this she became a legendary figure in the beginning of Methodism. In this case, the purpose of the biography is to debunk the legend or myth and, if it can be accomplished, to describe the person that was immortalized.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian of 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, due to the advances achieved by Methodism. The magnitude of her record is primarily due to the naming of her important name, derived from the past of the famous cause with which her memory is forever identified more than in the story of her personal life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism in both the United States and Canada and her fame is based on the inherent tendency of a highly popular organization or movement to glorify its beginnings for the purpose of enhancing the sense of tradition as well as continuity with its past.