He married, in April 1815, Hester Connor Stewart, daughter of the Rev. Abraham Augustus Stewart, chaplain to the Royal Hibernian School, Dublin and his wife Frances Connor of County Donegal, by whom he had seven sons, including James, a major in the army, who fell at Lucknow in 1857; Louis, rector of Garrycloyne, Blarney, County Cork; William, chief registrar of the Irish Court of Bankruptcy (d 1892); Charles, major of the 66th foot from 1865; Mark, registrar of judgments in Ireland; and John, of Fortfield House, Terenure, father of the well-known painter Mary Perrin.