Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. 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, of who four were born and survived to. 17 August. 1804 at Augusta Township Upper Canada.

In most cases subjects have participated in important events and has shared unique ideas or thoughts that are recorded on paper. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so there is no evidence to support such claims since when she got married is merely secondary. There is no primary source that can be used to reconstruct Barbara Heck's motives, or her behavior throughout her lifetime. However, she was a cult figure during the early days of Methodism. It's the job of the biographers to clarify and define the myth in this case, as well as to present the real person who was enshrined in.

The Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck has taken the first place on the New World's ecclesiastical lists in the wake of Methodism. This is because the record of Barbara Heck must be predominantly based upon her contribution to the greater cause and her name is forever linked. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously at the time of the emergence of Methodism throughout the United States and Canada and her reputation is built in the natural tendency of a highly successful movement or institution to celebrate its origins in order to strengthen the sense of tradition as well as continuity with its past.