Ordimers of Peterborough? help needed

[steelec]

I have recently found some notes left by an aunt before she died, that link my 'Dormer' family to someone by the name of Ordimer, who came over 40 years after William the Conqueror and settled in Peterborough.
I have been able to trace my Dormers back to the 1500s in Buckinghamshire and have been stuck there. Now with this new clue, I would welcome any assistance or clues people have as to how I may start looking for the Ordimers of Peterborough in the 11-12 Centuries.
thanks in anticipation.
Cathie

[Pat English]

You might look at the alternative spellings Ordmer and Ordmar, although these are Old English names that even pre-date William the Conqueror.

Edgar, the Peacable, King of England, married Ethelfled, the Fair, daughter of Earl ORDMAR and their son was Ethelred the Unready (978-1016 AD).

There's an Ordmer associated in the Domesday Book with Badlingham Manor at Chippenham in Cambridgeshire (quite near Peterborough):

The Dictionary of English Surnames by P H Reaney and R M Wilson doesn't have Ordimer, but it does have Ordmer, about which it says (I've summarised the complicated stuff in brackets, as it is a very "heavy" book):

Ordmar de la Wada 1190 (mentioned in Pipe Rolls in Norfolk), Ordmerus 1214 (Curia Regis Rolls, Surrey), Geoffrey Ordmeri 1277 (in Suffolk, found in Pipe Rolls at the British Museum), John Ordmer 1331 (found in Feet of Fines, Kent).
The name is from the Old English Ordmaer.

If you Google Ordmaer you get another mention of Ethelfled's father on this page under "Ealdorman of Herford Ordmaer of Hertford":

You may of course not be related to these famous people! But at least if you try Googling all the different possible spellings you may find something relevant.

There are some Ordimer/Ordymer mentions in London and Worcestershire in the 16th century on the Family search website.

Good hunting,

Pat