Barbara Heck

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

In general, the person who is featured in an autobiography has been an active participant in important instances or has presented unique concepts or ideas that have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck has left no documents or letters. Her date of marriage, for example, is not supported by any proof. In the majority of her adult life, there are no primary sources that allow us to reconstruct her intentions and actions. However, she has become a heroic figure in early North American Methodism historical. The biographer has to define the myth, explain it and describe the person who is enshrined within.

Abel Stevens was a Methodist scholar and writer in 1866. The development of Methodism throughout the United States has now indisputably put the Barbara Heck's name Barbara Heck first on the women's list in the ecclesiastical history of the New World. To understand the significance of her name it is important that you look at the long background of the Movement that she is and will continue to be associated. Barbara Heck's involvement in the beginning of Methodism was a synchronicity that happened to be a lucky one. Her fame can be attributed to the fact that a very successful organization or movement will honor their past in order to maintain ties with the past and to be rooted to it.