Barbara Heck

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

Normally the subject of the biography is an active participant in important events or has enunciated distinctive notions or plans that have been documented in written format. Barbara Heck however left no letters or statements indeed any evidence of such in relation to the date of her marriage has no significance. There is no primary source that could be utilized to determine Barbara Heck's motives and actions throughout her life. She has nevertheless become a heroic figure in early North American Methodism time. The biographer's role is to delineate and justify the myth and, if feasible, describe the actual person depicted in it.

The Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. The growth of Methodism throughout the United States has now indisputably made the modest names of Barbara Heck first on the lists of women's roles in the church's history in the New World. Her reputation is more based upon the importance of the cause that she is involved in than on her personal life. Barbara Heck's role in the starting of Methodism was an unlucky coincidence. Her popularity is due in part to the fact it has become a natural habit for extremely popular movements or institutions to exalt their origins, in order to keep ties to the past.