Barbara Heck

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

In normal circumstances, the individual that is the subject of this investigation has either been an important participant in an important incident or presented a distinctive declaration or suggestion that was recorded. Barbara Heck however left no messages or documents, in fact the evidence for such matters as the date of her marriage has no significance. There are no surviving primary sources from which one could reconstruct her motives or her actions throughout most of her lifetime. Yet she's been a important figure in the initial period of Methodism in North America. The job for the biographers to define and delineate the mythology in this case, and to try to portray the actual person included within the story.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar who wrote his thesis in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the history of New World ecclesiastical women, thanks to the progress achieved by Methodism. The magnitude of her record will be largely due to the setting of her precious name from the historical background of the great cause that her memory will be forever associated more so than from her personal lives. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism throughout the United States and Canada and her fame lies in the inherent tendency of an extremely successful organization or institution to celebrate its beginnings in order to enhance its perception of heritage and be a part of its history.