Earlier Ault
All the below just taken from Ancestry Pearson & Gilbert Family trees; 200 people, 67 Ault
Doveridge Bishops Transcripts bmd 1662-1810 were perused
Doveridge ~3k E of Uttoxeter: 28 k W of Derby .
Doveridge Henry Ault 1739-1792 & Martha Titterton 1723-1803
Thomas Ault 1705-1796 & Mary Buck 1705-1786
Charles Ault 1679-1753 & Sarah Cook
Herbert Ault 1650-1724 & Anne Leeke 1654-1719, Herbert b.Derby; died Doveridge
William Ault 1620- & Elizabeth 1624-
So our Ault family were in Doveridge back in 1620 - they could have been in the trickle of refugees that came to England before 1685
Still a lightning-rod for collective anxieties, the word "refugee" entered the English language when the Huguenots landed. Although migration had begun beforehand on a modest scale, around 50,000 French Protestants came to England after Louis XIV revoked the 1598 Edict of Nantes at Fontainebleau in October 1685
https://www.geni.com/projects/Huguenots-of-Britain/12982
but Ault not listed as a Huguenot name