John Steale (1571 – ????) was the 11th great-grandfather of Cometan, classified as one of Cometan’s distant paternal ancestors in the Hardacre family line. Born in Cumberland, John is recorded as having married Mabell Bow and to have fathered Elizabethe Stealle in 1613. The details surrounding John’s death remain unknown.
In Cometanic ancestry, John is categorised as part of the 13th generation retrograde, classifying him as a distant ancestor of Cometan.