Although Brown was indeed a very common surname, Anthony was a very unusual first name in Scotland at that time and so would stand out. Another thing to note that people often were known with a middle name by the early-mid 19th century but they often weren’t baptized with the name – I’ve had a wee look in the indexes and can’t find any Ant(h)ony Brown(e)s baptized in the Church of Scotland in the 1790s or indeed the Roman Catholic Church where the Anthony name was marginally more common.

My ancestor Anthony James Browne (sometimes Brown) was supposedly born in Glasgow in 1793 and is recorded as being a Superintendent in the Corps of Royal Engineers at the Plymouth Citadel 1841. Mostly his family lived in and around Droxford and Portsmouth, Hampshire.

With Browne/Brown such a common name, is it likely I could find details of his Glasgow birth?