School logbooks would probably be your best bet for identifying staff members. While some pupil admission/discharge registers are online, few (if any) logbooks are. So it would require a manual search at the archives and, unless you know the names of likely schools, it would be a rather impractical one, as there are a huge number of schools and teachers did not necessarily live near their place of work. If you want to pursue it, most London state school records up to the 1980s are kept at London Metropolitan Archives (not at the local borough archives). To see a list of holdings for the Whitechapel/Stepney area, search their online catalogue on reference code LCC/EO/DIV05. http://bit.ly/T45lPE Private/independent schools have mostly retained their own records, though a few of the more famous ones have been deposited (mostly at Guildhall Library). HTH Judy London, UK On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Jackye Sullins <jsullins@roadrunner.com> wrote: > > I'm posting for a friend of mine who would like to confirm that her great > grandfather was a teacher in the Whitechapel area circa 1900. Are there > school records listing staff anywhere online? Other suggestions would be > welcome. > > Thanks in advance. > > Jackye Sullins > Carlsbad, CA