Barbara Heck

BARBARA HICK (Baby) RUCKLE was born in 1734, in Ballingrane. She is the daughter of Bastian Ruckle 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 survived into childhood and died. 17 Aug. 1804 Augusta Township Upper Canada.

In normal circumstances, the individual who is being profiled may have been a major participant in an important moment or had a special announcement or proposition which was documented. Barbara Heck left neither letters or declarations. Actually, the most evidence available for matters like the date of Barbara Heck's marriage stems from secondary sources. There is no evidence of primary sources through which one could reconstruct her motives or her behavior throughout her time. Nevertheless she has become an iconic figure within the first time of Methodism in North America. It is the task of the biographer to clarify the legend that is being told, and to try to portray the actual person included within it.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian in 1866, wrote about this. The development of Methodism in the United States has now indisputably placed the humble Barbara Heck's name Barbara Heck first on the list of women in the religious history of the New World. The importance of her story is primarily due to the creation of her gorgeous name made from the history of the great cause with the memory of her is distinguished more than from the history of her own life. Barbara Heck's involvement in the beginning of Methodism was an unlucky coincidence. Her fame stems to the fact that it has been a common practice for extremely popular movements or institutions to exalt their historic roots to keep ties to the past.