Rajah Quilt

Rajah Quilt babban bargo ne da mata masu laifi suka ƙirƙira a shekarar 1841 yayin da suke tafiya a cikin jirgin ruwan masu laifi Rajah daga Woolwich, Ingila, zuwa Hobart, Ostiraliya. An ƙirƙira shi ta amfani da kayan da Lydia Irving ta shirya daga ƙaramin kwamitin jigilar fursunoni na ƙungiyar mata ta Burtaniya don haɓaka gyaran fursunoni mata. Ana tsammanin Kezia Hayter, wata mace 'yar ƙasa da ke tafiya a cikin jirgin ce ta shirya kuma ta kula da aikin. An miƙa bargon ga Jane Franklin, matar Laftanar Gwamna John Franklin lokacin da ta isa Ostiraliya. Daga baya aka mayar da bargon zuwa Burtaniya don Elizabeth Fry, shugabar ƙungiyar mata ta Burtaniya. A lokacin ba a san asalin bargon ba har sai da aka sake gano shi a shekarar 1989. Yanzu haka Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa na Ostiraliya yana riƙe da shi.

 Tarihi 
Lydia Irving ta yi aiki a ƙarƙashin kwamitin kula da fursunonin fursunoni mata na Burtaniya na Elizabeth Fry, kuma ta sami nasarar kuɗi lokacin da ta shawo kan hukumar sojojin ruwa don samar da "kyautai" ga waɗanda aka yanke wa hukuncin. Waɗannan kayan aikin sun haɗa da wuƙaƙe, cokali mai yatsu, aprons da kuma kayan ɗinki.[1] A cikin shekaru 25 da Fry ya yi yana aiki da ƙungiyar, an jigilar mata 12,000 a cikin jiragen ruwa 106. Shirin shine ziyartar kowane jirgi a daren da ya gabaci jirgin don kwantar da hankalin matan da ke kan hanyarsu ta zuwa Ostiraliya.[2]
An samar da kayan dinki ga fursunoni mata 180 da aka daure a cikin jirgin Rajah . Har yanzu ana san sunayen matan. An tattara su daga ko'ina cikin Burtaniya, kuma an yanke musu hukunci a Inverness, Aberdeen, Lincolnshire, Devon da kuma kotun manyan laifuka. Jirgin ya tashi daga Woolwich a ranar 5 ga Afrilu, 1841 kuma ya isa a ranar 19 ga Yuli, 1841 a Hobart da ke Tasmania . A lokacin tafiyar, wasu daga cikin matan sun yi dinki da dinki kayan a cikin wani murfin da aka yi amfani da shi wanda yanzu ake kira bargon Rajah. Ana kyautata zaton cewa mai shirya wannan bargon ita ce Kezia Hayter wacce ita ce mace daya tilo 'yar'uwa. Ta fito ne daga gidan yarin Millbank don taimaka wa Franklin wajen kafa kwamitinta don yin kwaikwayon wanda ke Birtaniya. Ana tsammanin yanzu da mata kusan 29 suka shiga ciki. Matan da ke cikin jirgin sun tuna da aikin ƙaramin kwamitin da aka yanke wa hukunci. Bargon ya ƙunshi saƙon da aka yi wa ado da zare na siliki wanda ke nuna godiya ga "kwamitin jiragen ruwa masu laifi". An gabatar da bargon ga matar gwamnan, Jane Franklin. Rubutun da ke kan bargon ya ce:
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 Manazarta 
Amanda Phillips, ‘Irving, Lydia (1797–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 June 2017