Ancestry of
Lavinia Warren

Dwarf Circus Performer

Mercy Lavinia Bump

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • James Sullivan Bump 
  • Mother:
  • Huldah Pierce Warren   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Oct 1841 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Nov 1919 
  • Death Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 30 Nov 1919 
  • Burial Location:
  • Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • aka Lavinia Warren, a stage name

    She was a dwarf circus performer for the Barnum & Bailey Circus and was married to another dwarf circus performer known as General Tom Thumb.

    Mercy Bump's given name is also seen as Minnie.

• Marriages for Mercy Lavinia Bump

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  • Spouse:
  • Charles Sherwood Stratton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Feb 1863
  • Marriage Location:
  • Grace Episcopal Church, New York, New York

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  • Spouse:
  • Primo Magri
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Apr 1885
  • Marriage Location:
  • Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, New York

• Sources for Mercy Lavinia Bump

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A121676.
  • ² Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1870, Middleborough, p. 60, Image 60 of 118.
  • ³ Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1880, Middleborough, E.D. 568, p. 32, Image 32 of 65.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1910, Middleborough, E.D. 1227, Sheet 7B, Image 137 of 140.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1860, Middleborough, p. 43, Image 43 of 114.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, MA, Plymouth County, 1850, Middleborough, Image 65 of 128.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Middleborough, Amended Y, p. 503, Birth record for Mercy Lavinia Bump.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1916-1920, Middleborough, p. 385, Death certificate for Mercy Lavinia Magi.
  • ⁹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 21.
  • ¹⁰ Holt, Nellie Beardsley and Charles Eleazer Holt, Beardsley Genealogy: The Family of William Beardsley, One of the First Settlers of Connecticut, West Hartford, Connecticut: n. p. (1951), 28.
  • ¹¹ Originally compiled by Harriet W. Hodge; Revised by Robert S. Wakefield and John Bradley Arthaud, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 21, Part 3, John Billington, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2018), 137.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 94.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 603.
  • ¹⁴ Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher (1918), 319.
  • ¹⁵ Wikipedia, "Lavinia Warren", (accessed 09/06/2018).