Family
Shaw married Mary Primrose Kennedy of Kirkmichael at Ayr in 1820, with whom he later had one son and two daughters. In 1834, on succeeding, in right of his wife, to the estate of Kirkmichael, he added Kennedy to his surname.
They had three children: Wilhelmina Shaw, who died young; Henrietta Shaw Kennedy, who married Primrose W. Kennedy of Drumellan; John Shaw Kennedy (d 1905), laird of Kirkmichael
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