Barbara Heck

BARBARA (Heck), Bastian Ruckle is the father of Margaret Embury and Bastian Ruckle was born in Ballingrane in 1734. She got married Paul Heck 1760 in Ireland. The couple had seven children from which four survived into childhood.

A biography usually features a subject who played an active role in the organization of important events or made unique statements or suggestions that were documented. Barbara Heck left neither letters nor statement. The most evidence available regarding the date of Barbara Heck's marriage comes from second-hand sources. For the vast majority of her life as an adult There aren't any primary sources that allow us to reconstruct her motives and actions. Her legacy is an important figure for the beginning of Methodism. Here, the biographer's role is to explain and account for the legend and describe if possible the real person who lies within it.

Abel Stevens, Methodist historian from 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the historical record of New World ecclesiastical women, due to the advances that was made through Methodism. Her record must chiefly consist of the setting of her important name, derived from the history of the great causes with which her legacy is forever identified more than through the events of her own life. Barbara Heck, who was not in the least involved in the beginning of Methodism as well as in Canada she is one of the women who is famous because of the trend for an organisation or movement to praise its roots to strengthen its sense of continuity and tradition.