Sonkád

Sonkád is a village,  located in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County. The name Sonkád is mentioned for the first time in 1181, in the certificate of the Cégény monastery.
According to written documents, his name was written as Sonkád, in 1426. At that time it belonged to the manor of Csaholy and they owned it until the extinction of the family.
In 1810, its owners were Ferenc Sulyok, Count László Teleki, Ádám Vay, Péter Kállay, Mihály Kerekes, György Kürthy, the Eötvös, Galgóczy and Makay families, who owned the settlement until the middle of the century.
The village suffered a great fire in 1884, and in 1890 another great fire destroyed it. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zsigmond Kölcsei Kende had a larger estate here.