During 1956 , MacColl caused a scandal by starting a relationship with Peggy Seeger , who was twenty years his junior , while married to his second wife , the dancer Jean Newlove , the mother of two of his children , Hamish ( b . 1950 ) and Kirsty ( b . 1959 ) .
Kirsty , Ewan MacColl 's daughter , died in 2000 .