Note that the original question posted by BobbyAZ has the name spelled correctly: "Simson." There was a story a few years back where one of the decendants of the original German family now living in the US and apparently making some effort to keep up with the history of the families gun making business was rather upset with the spelling of the family name as "Simpson" in the way of the idiot tv cartoon character. There is no "P" in the German gun making families' name.