There is no evidence that Shakespeare's immediate family, his wife Anne, and his three children, Susanna, Hamnet and Judith, ever accompanied Shakespeare to London. In 1596, his son Hamnet was buried in Stratford. Also, it is very unlikely that Shakespeare would have purchased New Place in 1597 unless he intended it to be his family's home. The evidence we have for Shakespeare's residences in London strongly suggests that he took lodgings at a succession of addresses, an arrangement that would hardly have suited a family. It is worth recording, however, that in January 1616, Stratford's town clerk, in London on business, noted in his diary the 'coming up to town' of Shakespeare and his son-in-law, John Hall.