Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in the town of Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), daughter of Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle as well as Margaret Embury had a daughter, Barbara (Heck) born in 1734. She married in 1760 Paul Heck and together they have seven kids. Four of them survived to adulthood.

The subject of an autobiography has been as a key participant in major occasions or has articulated unique ideas or proposals which were recorded in a documentary format. Barbara Heck, on the however, has not left notes or written documents. The evidence of such details as the date she got married marriage, is only secondary. The main documents used by Heck to describe her motives and actions are gone. However, she is a heroic figure in the early period of Methodism in North America. It is a case where the job of a biography is to debunk the myths or legends and, if it can be accomplished, to describe the true person who was enshrined.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck has taken the first place on the New World's ecclesiastical list because of the growth of Methodism. Her reputation is more based on the importance of the cause she was involved in than on her private life. Barbara Heck, who was not in the least involved in the beginning of Methodism as well as in Canada She is one of those women whose fame stems from the tendency of a successful organisation or movement to praise its origins to reinforce its sense of permanence and continuity.