Hi,
I certainly see the problem!
With regard to the daughter Ann Levis, I wondered whether this might in fact be a mistake for Elizabeth. But I do quite like your idea of an Ann being Stanford's illegitimate daughter - who then also could have married a Levis, of course.
Like you, I have found the wives seemingly mixed up: Elizabeth 1739 with Ann, then after wife Ann's probably burial, Mary in 1748 and Thomas in 1751 with mother Jane, But then two Anns in 1752 and 1755 with mother Ann, and Susannah, as you say, with an anonymous mother in 1762.
How can this be?
A mistake by the clerk who was writing in the register? Lack of concentration - after all, the daughter was called Ann. Perhaps he hadn't noted the wife's name but remembered that there once was an Ann? But to do so twice? Hmm.
And could the daughter Ann Levis perhaps really be Elizabeth, the first-born?
She is not mentioned in the will of Jane the wife, although the other daughters are. So is this daughter not hers? Or already dead or provided for?
I have tried to approach this by looking at the Biggs family, but so far have got nowhere useful.
Were Ann and Jane sisters? The best I can find at the moment is a will of a Thomas Biggs, a yeoman of Thurlaston, dated 1761, who has property in Huncote in the possession of Stanford Holyland. He has a wife Elizabeth, but does not name his children (but as they are still minors, unlikely to be either of Stanford's wives. A brother, perhaps?)
At the moment, it seems as if someone in Huncote/Narborough had a fixation with the name Ann! But sadly, this would be very hard to either prove or disprove!
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