Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. 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, of which four lived to adulthood and died. 17 August. 1804 in Augusta Township Upper Canada.

The subject of an autobiography has been involved in significant instances or has presented unique ideas or proposals which have been documented in written format. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so any evidence of such as the date of her marriage is secondary. There are no surviving primary sources through which one can trace her motivations and her actions throughout most of her life. Her name is still considered heroized in the tradition of Methodism. The biography's job is to identify and account for the myth and if possible to describe the actual person depicted in it.

A report by the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. Barbara Heck's humble name has become the first name in the ecclesiastical history of the New World because of the growing popularity of Methodism. Her reputation is more based upon the importance of the cause she has been connected to than the personal life. Barbara Heck was involved fortuitously in the inception of Methodism in Canada and the United States and Canada and her fame stems from the common tendency of a highly successful movement or institution to glorify its early days to increase its understanding of the past and the past.