Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) and daughter of Bastian and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) got married to Paul Heck (1760 in Ireland). They had seven children of which four lived to adulthood.

In most cases subjects have participated at important occasions and had unique thoughts or opinions which are documented in writing. Barbara Heck has left no notes or correspondence. The date of her marriage was, for instance, not supported by any evidence. Through the entirety of her adult life, there are no original sources to allow us to reconstruct her intentions and actions. She is still a very crucial figure in the early days of Methodism. It's the job of the biographer to explain and delineate the mythology in this case, and to try to portray the person who is portrayed in it.

Abel Stevens a Methodist Historian wrote about this event in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably the first woman to be included in the historical record of New World ecclesiastical women, thanks to the progress made by Methodism. The magnitude of her record will be largely due to the naming of her important name, derived from the past of the famous causes with which her legacy remains forever etched in the story of her personal lives. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous role in the establishment of Methodism in the United States of America and Canada. Her name is built on the inherent tendency that any highly successful organisation or organization must exaggerate the roots of its movements in order to increase the sense of tradition.