Need some reading help (handwriting)

Could it be English or French?

An or Fr?

It looks like "Jr." to me.

Well, it is English, I think.

It's in the "Color" column.

That wouldn't make much sense then would it? It looks (less so) like "gr."...

I interpret the ‘W’ in the first four at the top of the list as ‘white’.

What would ‘gr’ mean then? (Or "br", which I read first of all.)

Oh. The handwriting changes after the first 4 rows. They're all "W's". You can see the them in a couple of the last names.

That's it! Thanks very much!!!

No, I think it stands for "ditto" - I saw that on an ancestry show once.

This is as close as I could find. The ones on the photo you posted seem to be fancy-sloppy dittos...

On the other hand, looking over other examples on the registry, we find these, all in the same penmanship:

#289 Camille Wolyand
#290 John C. Warner
#295 Honors
#296 Harold
#300 (I believe the writer mistakenly wrote Winteler, then changed the W to an H for Hinteler)

Also many instances of ditto marks on the page, perfect little " marks where needed... I think the mark in the "Color" column is most probably his way of making W.

In the name, probably just a hasty correction of a W to an H.

After all the posts I had some new doubts.
But the signature on that list (not previously posted) does indeed look an awful lot like Hinteler.

In looking at it again, I think it's a fancy capital W - a new person started entering all of those that look like Jr. Usually 'ditto' is one cursive d with a small 'o' at the top of it, like a degree mark.

I was trying to look up some relatives on Ancestry. I was going a little crazy because I couldn't find my great-great grandfather, but the reason was because of the cursive writing. His name was Zachariah, but the automatic translation sometimes read the Z as a T....So I couldn't figure out why two different men were married to my great great grandmother.....until I looked up the actual record. Apparently Styles change over the years.