Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Born 1734 at Ballingrane in the Republic of Ireland. She is the mother of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margery Embury. Bastian Ruckle as well as Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck), born 1734. She married in 1760 Paul Heck and together they have seven children. Four survived into adulthood.

In most cases subjects have participated in significant events, and had unique thoughts or opinions which were recorded in writing. Barbara Heck has left no notes or correspondence. Her date of marriage as an example is not supported by any evidence. The primary documents that were used by Heck to describe her motivations and actions were lost. She has nevertheless become a heroic figure in early North American Methodism historical. In this instance the biographer's task is to define the myth and explain it and if possible to describe the real person enshrined in it.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar, who published his work in 1866. Barbara Heck's modest name is now indisputablely first in the listing of women who made a significant contribution to ecclesiastical life in New World history. This was because of the rise of Methodism in the United States. This is because the record of Barbara Heck has to be mostly based on her contributions to the cause to which her life's work is forever linked. Barbara Heck, who was unintentionally involved in the founding of Methodism as well as in Canada, is a woman known for her fame due to the tendency for a successful organization or movement to celebrate its origins to reinforce its sense of permanence and continuity.