Jørgen Pederssøn Schjelderup

The Reverend Jørgen was not, as it transpired, destined to end his days in Skogn. In 1656, one Raphael Lund — a theological candidate possessed of the considerable advantage of being nephew to the lord lieutenant Peder Wibe himself — arrived in Trondheim in search of a benefice. It was duly arranged that the Reverend Jørgen should vacate Skogn in Raphael's favour; the latter was called thither on the 2nd of November 1656 and ordained in Trondheim on the 30th of November. The Reverend Jørgen received in exchange the resident chaplaincy at the cathedral and was installed there on the 24th of May 1657. The expectation was, no doubt, that he should in due course succeed his brother-in-law, the Reverend Mentz Darre, who was beginning to show his years. As fortune — or rather misfortune — would have it, the Reverend Jørgen was no more long-lived than the Reverend Mentz. Both incumbent and chaplain died in December 1657.

He had been the first incumbent in Skogn to occupy himself with accumulating landed property. He also took up saw-milling, being the first to build mills deep in the valley, at Kolberg and Reistad. This latter detail suggests that the incumbent had a share in a net fishery in the Beistad fjord, in all likelihood in partnership with his fellow clergy of Innherad.