• 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’.