Barbara Heck

BARBARA(Heck) born 1734 in Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland), daughter of Bastian Russell and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian), and Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) and married Paul Heck (1760) in Ireland. They had seven kids, and four were born.

Normaly, the person whom you are profiling may have been a major person in a noteworthy incident or presented a distinctive announcement or proposition which was documented. Barbara Heck however left no notes or letters, and they are not evidence given the time of her marriage has no significance. No primary source exists that could be used to trace Barbara Heck's motives or actions during most of her lifetime. It is believed that she was a hero throughout the history of Methodism. The biographer must define the myth, explain it and also describe the person that appears in the tale.

A report by the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck's humble name is now unquestionably the first one in the ecclesiastical histories of New World because of the growth of Methodism. The magnitude of her record should be mostly attributed to the choice of her precious name from the historical background of the great cause which her memory is forever distinguished more than from the story of her own life. Barbara Heck, who was fortuitously involved in the founding of Methodism both in America and Canada she is one of those women whose fame stems from the trend that an established institution or movement will glorify their beginnings to reinforce its sense of continuity and heritage.