Barbara Heck

BARBARA HICK (Baby) Ruckle was born in 1734, Ballingrane. She was the daughter of Bastian Ruckle and Margaret Embury. Bastian Ruckle (Sebastian) as well as Margaret Embury, daughter of Bastian Ruckle (Republic of Ireland) and married Paul Heck (1760) in Ireland. They had seven children, of which four have survived childhood.

In normal circumstances, the individual in question has either been an important participant in a significant event or made a unique statement or proposal which has been recorded. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so any evidence of such given the time of her marriage is merely secondary. There aren't any primary sources from which one can reconstruct her motives and her behavior throughout her time. But she is heroized in the beginning of North American Methodism theology. Biographers must establish the myth, define it and also describe the person that is portrayed in the narrative.

Abel Stevens, a Methodist historian, wrote this article in 1866. Barbara Heck is now unquestionably one of the pioneer women in the time of New World ecclesiastical women, as a result of the changes that was made through Methodism. Her record is based more upon the importance of the cause she was involved in than on her personal lives. Barbara Heck, who was at the time of her birth, a key figure in the establishment of Methodism both in America and Canada, is a woman who's fame is due to the trend that an established institution or movement can be celebrated for its founding to increase its perception of continuity and history.