Barbara Heck

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

The typical biography includes a subject who was an important participant in significant events, or who had a unique statement or ideas that were recorded. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so the evidence for such matters in relation to when she got married is secondary. The main documents utilized by Heck in order to justify her motives and actions are gone. She is still a very significant figure at the start of Methodism. The biographer's mission is to determine and account for the myth and if possible to describe the person who is enshrined within it.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian from 1866. The development of Methodism within the United States has now indisputably made the modest names of Barbara Heck first on the listing of women who have been included in the ecclesiastical history of the New World. The reason for this is that the history of Barbara Heck must be mostly based on her contributions to the great cause, with which her legacy remains forever connected. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous part in establishing Methodism within The United States of America and Canada. Her reputation stems from the fundamental tendency that any highly successful organisation or organization must emphasize the cause of its movement to increase the sense of tradition.