Barbara Heck

BARBARA RUCKLE (Heck). Bastian Ruckle is the son of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She was married to Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. The couple had seven children from which four survived into childhood.

Most of the time subjects have participated in important events and has shared unique ideas or thoughts which are documented on paper. Barbara Heck did not leave no written or personal notes. The evidence of the date of her wedding was not important. The primary documents that were utilized by Heck in order to justify the reasons behind her actions and motives have been not available. Nevertheless she has become an heroic figure in the early period of Methodism in North America. In this case, the purpose of the biography is to expose the myths or legends and, if it can be achieved, identify the person that was inscribed.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian wrote this in 1866. The growth of Methodism throughout the United States has now indisputably placed the humble Barbara Heck's name Barbara Heck first on the women's list in the ecclesiastical history of the New World. Her reputation is more based on the significance of the cause that she is associated with than her private life. Barbara Heck, who was not in the least involved in the beginning of Methodism as well as in Canada, is a woman whose fame stems from the trend for an organisation or movement to praise the roots of its founding to enhance its belief in continuity and tradition.