Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton (née Bump; October 31, 1841 – November 25, 1919), known professionally as Lavinia Warren, was an American circus performer with proportionate dwarfism. She performed under the management of P. T. Barnum, toured in the United States and Europe, and appeared in the 1915 silent film The Lilliputians' Courtship. She was married to fellow performer Charles Sherwood Stratton, known professionally as General Tom Thumb, from 1863 until his death in 1883, and married Count Primo Magri in 1885.
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Early life
Warren was born as Mercy Lavinia Warren Bump at Middleborough, Massachusetts, the daughter of Huldah Pierce (Warren) and James Sullivan Bump. She was distantly descended from a French family named Bonpasse, from Governor Thomas Mayhew, and five Mayflower passengers: John Billington, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Stephen Hopkins, and Richard Warren – New England families which intermarried many times over.