Help please with word

[4HORSEMEN]

 Hello to all, could some one tell me what this word is, it is at the top of a column on a immigration
 indent.  I doubled up when making a copy, sorry.

  Thank in anticipation.

[Flattybasher9]

It may help if we knew which column.

Regards

Malky

[JenB]

Looks like 'Classes' to me  (long S in the middle of the word).

[hanes teulu]

Agree - I read it as "Classes" incorporating the "long s"

[4HORSEMEN]

 The first column was name, second was age, third this word, fourth vessel, fifth port of arrival,
 sixth sentence, seventh employment.
 This was the convict ship Surrey arrived Aust 1816, small amount of free passengers aboard,
 some were children.
 
 

[Beeonthebay]

Classes

[4HORSEMEN]

 Thank you, most appreciated.

[Malcolm33]

  This is the whole page that this word appears on.    There are a lot of ditto marks that don't make sense because we know that Scott William who came on the Surry in 1816 was about 14 or 16 years old.  Further up his sister Margaret appears with a ditto under '2' and she was 7 or 11 years old.
   Under the column headed 'Sentence' many have the figure '7' and I see from various other records on convicts that they nearly always got 7 years.
   However against Margaret's name there is another ditto mark with just ditto's above.   
   But William Scott has a ditto right underneath someone who has what looks like 'Le' or 'Se'.    Any ideas what that might mean?    'Leave' or 'Settler' perhaps?
   Also under the 'Classes' column William has what looks like 'op' or 'os'?

[Dundee]

First of all it is not a passenger list, it is the muster taken in NSW in 1825 so it is a mixture of convicts and free persons.

On these early records the " are NOT ditto marks, they are the equivalent of a dash to signify a blank entry, so the age column is blank for Margaret and William SCOTT and most others on the page.

The next column has their status - cf (came free) for Margaret and William.  Others are fs (free by servitude), bc (born in the colony), c (convict), tl (ticket of leave), cp (conditional pardon).

The sentence column is blank for Margaret and William and other non convicts, for others there is a 7 for a seven year sentence and L for a life sentence

Debra