Schønheyder traveled with King Christian VII of Denmark as royal priest on a tour through Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and France from May 1768 to January 1769.

He kept this position until 1782 when he became a dean and parish priest of the Church of Our Lady (Vor Frue Kirke) in Copenhagen at 40 years old.

She was a daughter of General-Landets-Oeconomi- og Commerce-Collegium member (kommiteret) Johan Frederik Wilhelm von Jessen (1709-1768, ennobled in 1754) and Ulrica Antonietta Böhne Nissen (1716-1788).

Their eldest son Johan Franciscus Gottlieb Schønheyder (1773-1850) was a high-ranking Danish civil servant Supreme Court justice.

She was the daughter of pastor in Hbvidbjerg Laurids Kiærulff Benzon (1720-1750= and Johanne Marie Poulson (1725-1793).