- Both her parents were of Romani descent.
- 1921: When she was four-years-old the family moved to Bethesda.
- She left school when she was 13 years old, and playing the harp became important to her.
- Eldra learnt by listening to her father without using written notation at all.
- 1931: She became friends with many leading harpists including Nansi Richards and Edith Evans, and she performed with them to small audiences.
- 1939: When war broke out, Eldra offered her services to the Women’s Land Army.
- Eldra was taught to speak Welsh by Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman, a tutor at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, when they began courting.
- She researched the history of the Roma in Wales, and wrote many stories about their traditions.
- 1979: 'Y Sipsiwn Cymreig' (The Welsh Gypsies) is published.
- 1989: 'Y Gof a’r Diafol' (The Blacksmith and the Devil) is published.
- 1991: An English version of 'Y Sipsiwn Cymreig' entitled 'The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood', and 'Storïau'r Sipsiwn i Blant' (Gypsy Stories for Children) are published.
- 2001: A year after her death, S4C broadcasts the film 'Eldra'.
'The last of Wales’s true Gypsy harpists.' – Robin Huw Bowen, Dictionary of Welsh Biography