Hugh Becconsall (c. 1560 – 1608) was the 11th great-grandfather of Cometan, classified as one of Cometan’s distant paternal ancestors in the Stringfellow family line. Born in Hesketh Cum Becconsall in Lancashire, Hugh is recorded as having married Ellen Horsker (1565 – 1599) and to have fathered at least one son named Robert in 1598. Hugh is recorded as having died at the age of forty-eight.
In Cometanic ancestry, Hugh is categorised as part of the 13th generation retrograde, classifying him as a distant ancestor of Cometan.