Barbara Heck

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

The subject of the biography usually someone who played an important role in major historical events, or who has made unique ideas and proposals which have been recorded in writing. Barbara Heck however left no letters or statements indeed there is no evidence to support such claims given the time of her marriage is merely secondary. There are no primary sources, from which one could reconstruct her motives or her conduct throughout the course of her existence. Yet, she's remained a heroic figure in early North American Methodism theology. In this instance the biographer's role is to delineate and justify the myth and if possible to describe the actual person depicted in the myth.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian wrote this in 1866. Barbara Heck's name is considered to be the most important in the ecclesiastical histories of New World because of the development of Methodism. Her record is based more on the significance of the cause that she has been involved in than on her personal lives. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously with the beginning of Methodism throughout Canada and the United States and Canada and her fame rests on the inherent tendency of the most successful movements or organization to celebrate its early days to enhance its perception of the past and its history.