Until his marriage in 1582 William, then aged 18, would have lived with his parents at their house in Henley Street. In 1597, he bought New Place and this would have been his Stratford home until his death in 1616. Between those dates we know virtually nothing about where he lived: the general assumption is that his family remained in Henley Street and that he took lodgings during his long absences in London: in the mid 1590s we know he was living in the parish of St Helen's Bishopsgate, and in 1604 in a house in Cripplegate.