Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Born 1734 in Ballingrane, Republic of Ireland. She was the child of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margery Embury. Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury had a daughter named Barbara (Heck) born in 1734. She married in 1760 Paul Heck and together they had seven kids. Four of them survived to adulthood.

The majority of times it is the case that the person has been involved in significant events, and shared unique ideas or thoughts which are documented on paper. Barbara Heck however left no letters or statements indeed any evidence of such since when she got married is not the most important. There is no evidence of primary sources from which one could reconstruct her motivations or her behavior throughout her life. Nevertheless she has become an iconic figure within the first time of Methodism in North America. The biographical task is to define and account for the myth and, if it is possible, to identify the person who is enshrined within it.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman in the historical record of New World ecclesiastical women, thanks to the progress that was made through Methodism. Her accomplishments are based more on the importance of the cause that she was connected to than the personal life. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous role in the establishment of Methodism in Methodism in the United States of America and Canada. Her reputation is built on the inherent tendency that any highly successful group or institution has to magnify the origins of its movements in order to increase the sense of history.