Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Bastian Ruckle, son of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She was married to Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. They had 7 children of which 4 survived infancy.

The subject of the biography is an active participant in important occasions or has articulated unique ideas or proposals which have been recorded in documentary form. Barbara Heck did not leave any letters or written statements. The evidence of the date of her wedding was not important. There are no surviving original sources that can trace her motivations and her actions throughout most of her existence. However, she's regarded as a hero in the past of Methodism. It is the task of the biographers to clarify and delineate the mythology of this particular case and to try to portray the actual person enshrined therein.

The Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the history of New World ecclesiastical women, because of the advancements achieved by Methodism. The reason for this is that the history of Barbara Heck has to be mostly based on her contributions to the great cause, to which her life's work is forever linked. Barbara Heck had a fortuitous contribution to the development of Methodism in The United States of America and Canada. Her fame stems from the fundamental tendency that any highly successful group or institution has to magnify the origins of its movements in order to increase the sense of the past.