Robert Parkinson (1584 – September 1632) was the 10th great-grandfather of Cometan, classified as one of Cometan’s distant paternal ancestors in the Hardacre family line. Born in Bleasdale, Lancashire, Robert is known to have been the husband of Elizabeth Baynes (1587 – 1645) and the father of Francis Parkinson who was born in 1622. Robert’s father is unknown, but his mother is recorded as having been Grace Shuttleworth. Robert is also recorded as having died at the age of forty-eight in Bleasdale, Lancashire.
In Cometanic ancestry, Robert is categorised as part of the 12th generation retrograde, classifying him as a distant ancestor of Cometan.